Titanic Post

I lifted this from the Alamogordo Daily News Forum. It is post #20 and was posted by “Totally Tired.”

“Gore has been involved with the development of the Internet since the 1970s, first as a Congressman and later as Senator and Vice-President. Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn stated in the 2000 article “Al Gore and the Internet”, that Gore was “the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development.”[107] His High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991[108](often referred to as the Gore Bill) was passed on December 9, 1991 and led to the National Information Infrastructure (NII)[109] which Gore referred to as the “information superhighway.”

In a March 9, 1999 interview on CNN’s Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, Gore stated, “During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.”[110] This statement was often misquoted by media outlets and led to the creation of a widely spread urban legend that Gore claimed to have “invented the Internet.”[111]

In response to the controversy, Cerf and Kahn argued that, “We don’t think, as some people have argued, that Gore intended to claim he ‘invented’ the Internet. Moreover, there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore’s initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving Internet.”[112] ”

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore (But can be found thousands of places - the ‘internet’ hoax was ridiculous then, and now. It was simply never said in that way.)