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To: TigerPaw who wrote (441470)	8/11/2003 8:53:37 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

Delusional identification event cue. "It would still be a minor federal playtoy if someone, in this case Al Gore, had not championed the effort to open the net to public and commercial use"

To: TigerPaw who wrote (441470)	8/11/2003 8:53:42 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Exactly. Gore helped transform the internet into the World Wide Web. But there's no point in trying to explain it to a bunch of folks for whom Rush Limbaugh is an authority on global warming...

To: TigerPaw who wrote (441470)	8/11/2003 10:12:47 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 769670

OK. You can believe WHATEVER you want to believe. Have some more swamp gas!

To: TigerPaw who wrote (441470)	8/11/2003 11:14:20 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Clinton and Gore were wonderful supporters of new technology. What about Kerry, have you heard anything about his interest in tech?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (441470)	8/11/2003 11:18:15 PM
From: Ga Bard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Where in the world is this crock about Gore and the internet coming from ... Geeze that moron was only 21 years old when ARPNET Preliminary discussions of how the ARPANET would be designed, which was 1967 and a request for proposals went out the following year. THUS, in 1969, the Defense Department commissioned the ARPANET NOT GORE who was only 23 years old. That Moronic Gore did not even get into politics until 1975 ... By that time, file copying via the UUCP protocol was beginning. Email was flourishing. The culture of the Internet was starting to develop through the Jargon File and the SF-Lovers mailing list. I believe 1968Senator Ted Kennedy learned that Massachusetts-based BBN had won the ARPA contract for an "interface message processor," he sent a congratulatory telegram. It thanked the upstanding folks at BBN for their ecumenical spirit in devising an "interfaith message processor." Typical DEMOcratic strategy to claim credit for other people's successes. But worst is the DEMOcratic spin doctors who care less about facts... only spin. ROFLMAO ... Gore pronounces "routers" as "rooters" ROFLAMO Gore has even gone as far as taken credit for popularizing the term "information superhighway" and around 1991 ... 1991 mind you ... that moron penned related articles for publications such as Byte magazine. But the term "data highway" has been used as far back as 1975, before Gore even entered Congress. As the most profound BBN was the education BBNs of hackers, & engineers and so forth LONG before Gore did anything remotely associated with the internet. Heck most remember the social groups on the BBN back in the late 80s. Oh well the SPin DOctors will continue ignoring plain and obvious facts. :-) Gary