NO, You are wrong! I've seen the interview where he specificly said that HE invented the internet! Furhtermore, you're also wrong about the funding, he did push funding for the internet in schools but the internet was Invented and in common use long before he became involved. Gore was and IS an idiot! Joe At 02:10 AM 3/5/05 +0100, you wrote:

finally a sensible person... LOL At 08:55 AM 03/05/2005, Joe R. wrote:

On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Joe R. wrote: Ok, this is what he said: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." Now, this could obviously be construed as Gore taking credit for "inventing" the internet, but then one could also be intellectually dishonest in claiming so. Understanding politics and having good reading comprehension helps to parse the actual meaning of this sentence. It also helps to not be a total partisan political hack :) Here's more context: BLITZER: I want to get to some of the substance of domestic and international issues in a minute, but let's just wrap up a little bit of the politics right now. Why should Democrats, looking at the Democratic nomination process, support you instead of Bill Bradley, a friend of yours, a former colleague in the Senate? What do you have to bring to this that he doesn't necessarily bring to this process? GORE: Well, I will be offering -- I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. And it will be comprehensive and sweeping. And I hope that it will be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be. But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. 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. And here's the actual transcript: http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000/transcript… BTW, I'm less trusting of Wolf Blitzer (yellow journalist that he is) than Al Gore at this point (and that's saying a lot) because Blitzer has more political clout these days, and the distortion and outright lies that he spews are more dangerous. But that's just me taking an opportunity to make overtly political commentary. More importantly, read what Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf had to say about it: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200009/msg000… -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]