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Old 04-17-2009, 09:38 PM   #339
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I like the article you link to. Particularly the part that says of Gore "he sponsored the 1988 National High-Performance Computer Act (which established a national computing plan and helped link universities and libraries via a shared network) and co-sponsored the Information Infrastructure and Technology Act of 1992 (which opened the Internet to commercial traffic)."
Yep, the part I gave Gore props for, but which in no way matched his statement.

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So, okay, you win; he didn't create the Internet. He just took the initiative in creating the Internet as we know it today. (shrug)
That's playing fast-and-loose with language, too; the Internet "as we know it today" didn't exist in 2000, or 1998, or 1993, or even 1989.

At best, you could say Gore took *an* initiative, which was one of many initiatives, which helped transform the Internet. But the Internet existed before Gore, and was transformed by the contributions of many other people more important than any politician in Washington.
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