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To: TopCat who wrote (69736)	6/19/2006 3:40:24 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 173976

Without Gore the networks would be a group of competing e-mail services much like the cell phones. There would be a surcharge to send e-mail to someone on another net. Commerce would find the hassle not worth the effort. TP

To: TopCat who wrote (69736)	6/19/2006 3:58:44 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Without Gore we'd pay a telco for every time we log on, every drop of bandwidth, every email we send, every one of your lame postings would come with a surcharge. We'd still be in the bulletin board era.. perkel.com "But the real question is what, if anything, did Gore actually do to create the modern Internet? According to Vincent Cerf, a senior vice president with MCI Worldcom who's been called the Father of the Internet, "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." The inventor of the Mosaic Browser, Marc Andreesen, credits Gore with making his work possible. He received a federal grant through Gore's High Performance Computing Act. The University of Pennsylvania's Dave Ferber says that without Gore the Internet "would not be where it is today." Joseph E. Traub, a computer science professor at Columbia University, claims that Gore "was perhaps the first political leader to grasp the importance of networking the country. Could we perhaps see an end to cheap shots from politicians and pundits about inventing the Internet?"