On Mar 5, 11:22 pm, Cyli wrote:
On 3 Mar 2007 22:33:24 -0800, "
wrote:
During my
service in the
United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the
Internet.


Well, I do quibble over the 'invented', but 'created' does come close
enough to label him as someone careless with taking credit for a work
accomplished by a lot of people, when he should have shared the
credit.

Like I said, I'm an engineer, I read invented and created as nearly
the
same.

However, the Internet as it was when he made that statement had been
greatly changed from the days before he pushed for the legislation. If
you had used it back in the 80s, you'd know that the difference was
astounding.

I am "somwhat" familiar with computing from ~1980 onwards. :-)

Not to say that I like Gore a lot. I didn't like or approve of him
enough to vote for him (nor did I vote for Bush. Probably Libertarian
party that year.), but I hate to see him put down for the careless use
of phrasing that was then changed by those claiming to quote him and a
greed that didn't make sure to share a lot of credit.

I'm pretty much ambivalent on Gore as a politician. I probably
voted for the same person you did in 2000. He is quite the
blowhard.

On this quote, it's probably a techie thing. To a technical person
it's blatantly obvious that Gore did almost nothing to create the
internet. It's not a matter of him not sharing the credit, it's that
he's taking credit for something he had nothing to do with.
It'd be like me taking credit for landing a man on the moon.

Maybe a bit of a history lesson here. I'd suggest the
Computer History museum's "Internet History" page:

http://www.computerhistory.org/exhib...ernet_history/

For those who want to skip ahead, it ends with
"1990 ARPANET formally shuts down. In twenty years,
'the net' has grown from 4 to over 300,000 hosts. "

"By 1992, when this timeline ends,
* the Internet has one million hosts
* the ARPANET has ceased to exist
"

Gore's bill "creating the internet" was passed in December
1991.

BTW, whose word did you take when you said 'invented'?

I didn't take anyone's word for it. I heard about it, couldn't
believe
that even a politician would be that stupid, looked up the transcripts
and read them myself. Confirmed that apparently he is that
stupid.
- Ken