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To: Loki who wrote (86960)	11/17/2000 7:01:19 PM
From: Richard Habib	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 97611

<<All from the person who invented the internet>> Not that I defend exaggeration but can you really imagine Bush interested in the 1980's research that led to the commercial internet. The question as tech investors is who is more interested and who has more vision regarding the issues we as investors are interested in. I don't want to confuse you with real statements from real pioneers of the internet but here you go. Whether you read it or not is your business. The Supercomputer Network Act of 86 and the National High Performance Computer Act of 88 were the key bills. Also included are a few supporting statements. Gore Sponsored the Supercomputer Network Act of 1986. In 1986, Senator Gore sponsored the Supercomputer Network Act to develop and study communication methods for universities and federal research facilities to advance future options for network capabilities Gore Sponsored Bill Investing in Early Research Networks. In 1988, Senator Gore sponsored the National High-performance Computer Act. The bill called for the establishment of a national computing plan, connected colleges, universities and libraries to the network, and undertook research and development for acceleration of computer systems and improving software. The bill was reintroduced in 1989, and signed into law in 1991 Gore Authored the "Information Infrastructure and Technology Act of 1992." Gore followed up the High-Performance Computing Act by introducing the Information Infrastructure and Technology Act of 1992, which was designed to speed the introduction of technologies developed under the earlier statute into schools, hospitals and businesses to improve education, expand health care and create jobs Vinton Cerf, Nicknamed the "Father of the Internet:" "I think it is very fair to say that the Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the Vice President in his current role and in his earlier role as Senator." Cerf is currently a senior vice president with MCI Worldcom. "Al Gore actually deserves a lot of credit. In about 1986, he started asking questions like, 'Why don't we take these supercomputers and these optical fiber networks and put them together. Would that do anything?' Well, guess what? That eventually turned into the National Science Foundation Network, which became a core element of the Internet." Marc Andreessen, the Inventor of the Mosaic Browser: Marc Andreessen, the inventor of the Mosaic Browser, has credited Gore for making his work possible. Andreesen noted that while he was a student at the University of Illinois, he was able to access a federal grant program that was funded through Gore's High Performance Computing Act, which allowed Andreessen to work on the technology that led to the creation of the Mosaic browser Bill Scherliss, Computer Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. "I was a research manager at the time and it was clear to all of us that Al Gore was a major leader in the process over a period of many years. He was chairman of a key Senate subcommittee starting in the late 1980s. He was an early Net user. The time was right in 1991… And they agreed to support the research needed to make it happen. Today the Internet is a multibillion-dollar industry. But Gore is still working on the Internet. He is starting research initiatives to solve some hard long-term problems." Joseph F. Traub, a computer science professor at Columbia University: Gore "was perhaps the first political leader to grasp the importance of networking the country (and later the world)… In 1986 I chaired the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, and Gore was our dinner speaker at the National Academy of Sciences… At the time he was a senator from a fairly small Southeastern state and I was amazed at his national vision. He has continued to be a national leader in promoting the importance of the Internet for commerce and education… Could we perhaps see an end to cheap shots from politicians and pundits about inventing the Internet?"