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There you go with that partisan crap again.

:-)

I won't speak for any "political arena"....I'm sure making inflated
claims
about what you have done is perfectly acceptable in political circles.

That may be the basis of our disagreement on this issue. I believe the
record shows convincingly that during Gore's service in Congress, he was
instumental in instituting government policy and providing funding for the
agencies and organizations that provided impetus, funding, and opportunity
for the acceleration of the internet's creation/evolution into its present
form. I believe that in the context of a television interview during a
presidential campaign, practical machinations of the government, and the
necessity of brevity, that long winded sentence could reasonably and
truthfully be summarized into what Gore actually said in the CNN interview.
You, on the other hand, seem to believe otherwise.

As far as "in the industry" that's complete hogwash. Cerf and Kahn
would have caught crap by industry people if they had claimed to
have created the internet.....and they contributed far more than
Al Gore ever did.

Really? In their statement, they do seem to take a lot of credit, "But as
the two people
who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the
Internet work," Of course, in the context of a multi-paragraph statement
prepared at leisure, they did have the ability to be a tad more precise and
verbose.


Most defense of Gore tries to rely on word spinning. That somehow
"creating the internet" is better than "inventing the internet."
I'll stick to the actual word he used if that makes you feel better.

I'd be more satisfied if you stick to the context, wherein he refers to what
he did in Congress. Hell, the "High Performance Computing and Communication
Act of 1991" was commonly referred to as the Gore Bill. This bill led to
the creation of the "National Intelligence Infrastructure", for which Gore
may have created the term Information Superhighway. No, Gore was no
programmer, but the internet owes its existence to more than the techies
like Cerf, Kahn, & you. And for that, I give Gore most of the credit on the
government side, as he claimed.


"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the
initiative in creating the Internet."

The concept that Gore singlehandedly created the internet is so ludicrous, I
don't understand how anyone could sensibly interpret the meaning of his
statement to infer he meant that.

Yes, I'm a technical person and maybe politicians or other
simpletons can't see through unadulterated BS, but that
statement no matter how you try to justify it is BS......

It's because the "invented the internet" interpretation *is* so ridiculous,
I can't understand why any intelligent person, both of us included, would
interpret it as you seem intent on doing.

....and it's got nothing to do with right vs left vs middle.

The facts and record have nothing to do with left/right; but the inability
ta accept the reasonable interpretation seems to be.

Joe F.