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04-18-2003, 06:16 PM
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joke about al gore inventing internet?
This prolly sounds stupid, but in the past couple of years, i've heard jokes once in a while about al gore inventing the internet. I know this is a joke, but where did the joke derive from?
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04-18-2003, 06:18 PM
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wasnt the internet invited for the army? then some guys in switzerland created the internet for normal people, not sure anymore, but i know nothing about that joke, sorry
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04-18-2003, 06:24 PM
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the dod invented the internet. Department of defense needed a network that could be spread in large geographic locations that if one part of the network was cut-off, that data could still be routed differently so that it wouldn't cut off the whole system from 1 part of it going bad. From there, it was expanded and today is known as the internet.
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04-18-2003, 06:29 PM
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I think it was in a speech. He also said the movie Love Story was about him and Tipper. Too bad the Democrats couldn't come up with anyone better than him.
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04-18-2003, 06:44 PM
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Gore's words in a CNN interview, as quoted by Wired News, were as follows:
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the
initiative in creating the Internet."
Gore meaning, obvious to anyone who knew the record, was that he did the political work and articulated the public vision that made the Internet possible. No reasonable person could conclude that Gore was claiming to have invented the Internet in any technical sense. The first half of his sentence makes this clear: he is talking about work he did in the context of his service in the Congress. The creation of the Internet was a process that had several phases and took several years, and Gore is claiming the principal credit for the political side of that effort. It is a substantial claim, but an accurate one.
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04-18-2003, 07:56 PM
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For some more in-depth info on history, Google ARPANET or DARPANET...  | |
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04-18-2003, 08:08 PM
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04-18-2003, 08:14 PM
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04-24-2003, 02:59 AM
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Gore also said he was going to open a restaurant in his hometown of Carthage about a year ago and guess what it still isnt there what a surprise haha.
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04-24-2003, 03:28 AM
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What Al Gore did was sponsor legislation that made the adoption and creation of the internet substantially easier. He's very tech savvy and his claim, in its entire context, has merit.
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