Al Gore invented the internet

[agnostic]

i have been playing some Civilization IV on my puter lately and there is a "wonder" you can construct in a city titled "The Internet" and there's a nice picture of Al Gore representing it. Seems as though Sid Meier has a sense of humor.

[The Drifter]

holy hell, that surprised me....i like it. Well played.


Agno, Sid meiers is the shit...and congrats on you hawks...bout time. lol

[wordsmythe]

Originally Posted by Bubba

I just googled him and it said he invented the World Wide Web.


Now I'm really confused because I thought Al Gore invented the World Wide Web!?!?!?!?

You're supposed to be confused about this Bubba. That what the right wing spin machine wanted when they made up that lie about Al.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

Claim: Vice-President Al Gore claimed that he "invented" the Internet.

Status: False.

Origins: Despite the derisive references that continue even today, Al Gore did not claim he "invented" the Internet, nor did he say anything that could reasonably be interpreted that way. The "Al Gore said he 'invented' the Internet" put-downs were misleading, out-of-context distortions of something he said during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "Late Edition" program on 9 March 1999. When asked to describe what distinguished him from his challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Gore replied (in part):

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.

Clearly, although Gore's phrasing was clumsy (and perhaps self-serving), he was not claiming that he "invented" the Internet (in the sense of having designed or implemented it), but that he was responsible, in an economic and legislative sense, for fostering the development the technology that we now know as the Internet.

[lurker]

misleading, out-of-context distortions of something he said

No shit? Who'd do something like that?

[Highwayman]

Originally Posted by Bubba

Now I'm really confused because I thought Al Gore invented the World Wide Web!?!?!?!?

No Bubba, he claimed that he created the Internet. Like he’s God or something. Everyone knows the Internet evolved from lower life forms, like transistor radios.

(And watch out for Wordy’s post coming up, he’s on the kool-aid again.)

[wordsmythe]

As proper evolution will do.

But keep pushing that lie Highway. It makes you a good right winger.

[K C Muffin]

Originally Posted by TexKan

Now see where this went?????? SOUTH..........there was not one sista on here helpin ya'll out either..............

Yep - I was just mindin' my own bizness. And they think we're the troublemakers!

[wordsmythe]

Almost always...

almost

[Lone Gunman]

Originally Posted by K C Muffin

Yep - I was just mindin' my own bizness. And they think we're the troublemakers!

Maybe not trouble makers just starters.

[K C Muffin]

OK - I'll go with that.