Never did.....you never read the Red Herring interview..
Here are his words in response the Red Herring questions.....
JP: Within the technology industry, your remarks about the Internet have been widely ridiculed --
Gore: And what were those remarks? [Smiles] I said, "I took the initiative in Congress." It was lampooned as a statement that I invented the Internet. I never said that. What I did say was characterized as an effort to get more credit than I deserved. I regret that. But I am proud of the role that I did play.
PH: And that role was what, exactly?
Twenty-four years ago I began to proselytize for the creation of high-capacity broadband networks. I assure you, at that time there was no one else in Congress even talking about it. I pressed for the idea of an "information superhighway," a metaphor based on what I had learned as a child watching my father author the legislation that created the interstate highway system in America. I remember them debating how wide the lanes should be, that the signs should be green.
After the Apollo program, computing began to spread far and wide, and data traffic began to completely overwhelm twisted copper pairs. Copper had become the equivalent of the old two-lane roads. So I sponsored legislation to push funding for research into new switches, new algorithms, advances in supercomputing, and the establishment of the National Research and Education Network, which took the small ARPAnet and vastly expanded it by hooking up university computing centers. |
