Can you believe?

"Scott Seidman" wrote in message
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"Ronnie" wrote in news:1166237760.365793.245510@
80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com:

OK, he did not "invent" the internet. He just says he "took the
initative in creating it." BIG difference, right? Not invented, but
more godlike created it.

Ronnie

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No, he was probably talking about how he co-sponsored the Information and
Technology Act of 1992, opening commercial traffic on the internet. The
internet existed before that-- commercial use did not.

One could argue that the internet would look very different today without
that Act. It really isn't that much of an exaggeration. There were no
commercial "ISP's" before that

Certainly, from the point of view of someone who's being using email since
about 1981, I can say that the early '90s is when usage started becoming
quite common.

But, why rehash old silly arguments. Let's speak of something new.

It would still probably look very similar to today's look. There were
commercial companies hooked up also. We also used the research and the
email parts. And the newsgroups. The people using it would have forced it
even without AGore. Besides, he co-sponsored the act. Somebody came to him
to get him to sign on to the bill. He was not the originator, and the
originator would have been approached by a constituent.

"Calif Bill" wrote in news:AcChh.874$pQ3.25
@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net:

Besides, he co-sponsored the act. Somebody came to him
to get him to sign on to the bill. He was not the originator, and the
originator would have been approached by a constituent.


http://www.eff.org/Legislation/Bills..._tech_s2937_92
_gore.bill


I have no idea how to find out if he was the originator, but his name is
first. Gore was involved in and early federal effort to establish a widely
used internet, and he was one of the most tech-savvy senators at the time.
"Used self-serving language" is not the same as "claimed he invented the
internet", and its not a lie (unlike "I'm a uniter, not a divider")


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Scott
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