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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (66006)5/16/2006 6:53:27 PM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
Don't burst his bubble. He doesn't even know that he's quoting Dick Armey about what Al Gore said. It was a crappy construct on Gore's part, but no reasonable person looking at the entire text would conclude that Gore was claiming he invented the internet.

The poor guy [Terrence] can't even find on the internet the person who is most commonly referred to as the internet.

The ARPANET would still be an obscure connection between some universities and defense contractors had not Al Gore pushed for the laws that declassified it, and made the intellectual property available without charge. Al Gore did not invent the ARPANET, but he is responsible for it becoming the INTERNET.

Possibly more important is the fact that Gore was instrumental in getting the initial funding for Arpanet. All of the early technical folks that worked on Arpanet freely acknowledge that.

But Terrence needs to live in his own little world of Dick Armey's propaganda.

jttmab
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