Like there's such a huge difference between "Inventing the internet" and "Creating the Internet".  geeesh

www.benbarrack.com  

HE INVENTED GLOBAL WARMING......OUT OF THE VACUUM OF PURE NOTHINGNESS!!!!!!

Paarl of Rhodesia

I was using the internet when algore thought it was a place for freshly caught trout. In those days it was called the ARPAnet and browsing was still something you did at Macy's when you didn't want to buy anything.

The "History of the Internet" site DOES mention Gore:

In 1988, a National Research Council committee . . .  produced a report commissioned by NSF titled "Towards a National Research Network". This report was influential on then Senator Al Gore, and ushered in high speed networks that laid the networking foundation for the future information superhighway.

So Al Gore took the initiative in creating the Internet in 1988! Before that, we were all just playing around, huh Al?

When did Al take the initiative in creating the movie "Love Story"?

You have to wonder about grown-up men who delude themselves with fantasies that they flew rocket ships or killed dragons or shot Billie the Kid. 

Al Gore is scientifically illiterate. He knows no more about computer science than he does about meteorology. This charlatan is an insult to everybody who DOES know something about a scientific subject.

The only thing Al Gore ever invented/created is "inconvenient lies". His lies inconvenience the rest of us.

Every Computer Science expert in the world, of which there are now millions, will tell you not only about the long history of networking computers (internet) going back to the 1960's, which grew from out of government, educational and private networks, but of how public networks were born in the late 1980s, and bloomed in the early 1990's. None of this had anything to do with the initiatives of Al Gore. As for governmental regulation of the Internet, that also went back to the 1960's, also before Al Gore.

Essentially, from nearly the very beginning of the earliest networks (long before Al Gore was on the scene), there was file transfer protocal (ftp), email protocal (POP), newgroups (USENET), and gopher (to search on other computers on the Internet), plus a number of other useful Internet tools. Then with the Internet already in place, Marc Andressen and Eric Bina, invented Mosaic, the first Web browser. With that invention, and with a decision by several governing bodies, the Internet was open to the public, and backbone nets popped up all over the place, such as PSInet, which was a commercial endeavor, not a govenment plan, and it was open for business in 1989, also long before Al Gore was on the scene as V.P.

Bill Clinton and Al Gore deserve absolutely no credit for the Internet, but they both do deserve a lot of credit for discrediting the office of President and Vice President, respectively. Ironically, they both have discredited these offices through their insidious lies. They were not only "poor excuses" for presidential offices, but "poor excuses" for humans.

...well before Al had flunked his first divinity-school exam.

The truth is insensitive. - Neal Boortz

who are those guys; gaffe #2!

Liberals62%

IranianUranium

"he did take the initiative in passing the legislation that eventually
resulted in a lot of other people creating the Internet, not
necessarily him"

I co-founded the first commercial provider in the upper Midwest US. Al Gore's claim has been an outright lie that those who helped pioneer the commercial Internet have understood for years.

Gore was instrumental in working with NSFNET and had a proposal to give the administrative control of the network to a partnership between the baby Bells and the IBM/MCI joint venture known as Advanced Network Solution (ANS). ANS operated the NSFNET backbone under contract with the NSF, and provided services to the nonprofit regionals which were prohibited from providing commercial traffic (though they did, while sucking taxpayer funds for bloated retired PhD staffs, including free office and data center facilities colocated at universities, university-paid leased line circuits, university health care benefits, etc.).

Gore intended to give full administrative control to the RBOCs (baby bells) of peering points, charging admission to any commercial service provider to connect, while also being able to sell retail Internet service without the same penalty. This NAP model was also proposed to use a measured rate service, a concept the RBOCs were familiar with from toll networks (long distance). Had they succeeded, the Bells would have likely been the sole providers of Internet, and your usage would have been billed per minute like long distance.

As an early commercial network, we had numerous battles with Gore and NSFNET as the tried to keep anyone not on the RBOC list from having access to NSFNET routes. Back in 1993, most of what people thought of as the Internet was found on NSFNET - things like gophers, WAIS and a plethora of academic domain email users (who were prohibited from using their accounts for commercial purposes, but again, nobody enforced that).

This approach was of particular interest to the RBOCs and they treated Senator Gore very well when it came to time for contributions. Just as Rep. Billy Tauzin used to be called the "Representative from BellSouth," Gore truly was the Senator from the Baby Bells. In the late 1980s, they all saw the writing on the wall from the earlier divestiture and increasing competition. While they were restricted from providing long distance services for some time, they saw this new Internet thing as their chance to get back in charge. At the same time, the failure to control this disruptive technology was considered to be a major risk to the RBOCs. Al Gore was firmly in their camp in working to swing the monopolization of the commercial Internet into the RBOC camp.

Fortunately for everyone here, the Commercial Internet Exchange and aggressive cowboys like Marty Shoffstall at PSI, Rick Adams at UUNET, Bob Collett at Sprint, and Bill Washburn, executive director of the CIX, created a peering platform that invited dozens of networks in and led to other peering facilities like the MSF Datanet MAEs (Metropolitan Area Ethernets). While this topology isn't predominant today, it was instrumental in breaking Al Gore's monopoly dream.

Like global warming, Al Gore has consistently been on the wrong side of change. He's consistently embraced the old boy network (likely because they pay for his immense overhead) and has worked relentlessly to impede the advancement of the right causes for individual liberty and the empowerment of the little guy.

Just to give some context to my previous post, place yourself in 1991-1993. Al Gore is proposing transitioning from the NSFNET to a commercial Internet that would be run by the regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs). These regional monopolies would be able to set rates and terms on all access to the Internet, and would bill per minute for access.

One example of this was US West (acquired into Qwest), which was running a pilot program called CommunityLink. US West partnered with a France Telecom subsidiary to use a "Internet terminal" called Minitel, a clunky little monochrome videotext terminal hooked up to your phone line, connecting to various bulletin boards run by your supermarket, local radio stations, movie theater ticket office, school districts, city government, etc. Each paid US West to have their bulletin board hosted, and you paid per minute for access. Eventually they envisioned where you could order movies (US West Interactive) as well as see what specials were on sale at the grocery, request a song on the radio, and see the bus schedule. They called this environment the "Global Village" and it was about as exciting as a Soviet planned city.

If you're curious what Al Gore's Internet would have looked like, here are some links on the CommunityLink project:

http://seattlepi.nws...

http://findarticles....

http://www.aisworld....

I helped bury CommunityLink in its Omaha pilot market, and spent countless hours enlisting our Senators to tell Al Gore to back off on his monopoly aspirations. It's amusing that he's back again, foisting yet another completely worthless concept upon us in a means of transferring trillions of wealth to those he does bidding for.

Write this down. 

Barack will not be on the ballet in Nov.  He will have a Clinton sized "accident"  The MSM knows this so they are picking the next candidate.  They want Gore next instead of Hillery.

Semperdamus has made this prediction. 

"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference.
The MARINES don't have that problem."
President Ronald Reagan - 1985