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To: Neocon who wrote (34096)	9/1/2000 1:49:52 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

The revolution known as the internet would not have touched you or I had it not been for the development of the Mosaic browser. The Browser allowed the great unwashed mass of computer users to access and utilize the internet. Its free distribution (like the nearly free distribution of the operating system many years before) gave rise to an entire new industry. For Al Gore to suggest he had anything whatsoever to do with its development is ludicrous. And if any Democrat believes Al Gore had anything to do with the rise of of the internet, he/she is a fool. Bill Clinton and Al Gore just happened to be at the helm when the next industrial revolution was launched. We can thank young brilliant creative kids for allowing America to lead the world in the next industrial revolution. Their energy, innovation and willingness to risk everything launched sites such as SI, and with it the internet grew and grew. Politicians like Al Gore, who have done nothing but suck from the life energy of these creative wealth builders, had next-to-nothing to do with building or creating the internet.

To: Neocon who wrote (34096)	9/1/2000 2:03:18 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<<1974 - Bolt, Beranek & Newman opens Telenet, the first commercial version of the ARPANET. >> I owned stock in that company until GTE bought them.

To: Neocon who wrote (34096)	9/5/2000 2:56:15 PM
From: iandiareii	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

In all fairness, it’s something Gore had worked on a long time. Gore is not the Father of the Internet, but in all fairness Gore is the person who, in the Congress, most systematically worked to make sure that we got to an Internet, and the truth is...in the Clinton administration the world we had talked about in the ’80s began to actually happen. You can see it in your own life, between the Internet, the computer, the cell phone. Newt Gingrich, serial wife-ditcher September 1, 2000 speakout.com