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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1138529)6/2/2019 2:41:25 AM
From: Jeff Hayden2 Recommendations  Read Replies (4) of 1573812
 
You know? You guys ought to check Wikipedia once in a while. I typed in Al Gore Internet and got an impressive page on what Al Gore actually accomplished.

Here's a part:

"24 Jun 1986: Albert Gore introduced S 2594 Supercomputer Network Study Act of 1986 [4]

As a Senator, Gore began to craft the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (commonly referred to as "The Gore Bill" [5]) after hearing the 1988 report Toward a National Research Network [6] submitted to Congress by a group chaired by UCLA professor of computer science, Leonard Kleinrock, one of the central creators of the ARPANET (the ARPANET, first deployed by Kleinrock and others in 1969, is the predecessor of the Internet). [7]

Indeed, Kleinrock would later credit both Gore and the Gore Bill as a critical moment in Internet history:

The bill was passed on Dec. 9, 1991 and led to the National Information Infrastructure (NII) [9] which Gore referred to as the " information superhighway". President George H. W. Bush predicted that the bill would help "unlock the secrets of DNA," open up foreign markets to free trade, and a promise of cooperation between government, academia, and industry. [10]"

There's a lot more on that page including that ARPANET led to Mosaic, which is the beginning of all browsers.

Needless to say, Al Gore knows one hell of lot more about networking than you do.
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