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To: bentway who wrote (334929)	4/23/2007 4:22:59 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574033

Chris, > The REAL "inventors" of the internet disagree with you. You know that already, because I've shown you the info before. From Snopes, who bases the whole "myth" argument on the distinction between "create" and "invent": snopes.com > To those who say the words "create" and "invent" mean exactly the same thing, we have to ask why, then, the media overwhemingly and consistently cited Gore as having claimed he "invented" the Internet, even though he never used that word, and transcripts of what he said were readily available. Gee, maybe because the only ones drawing the distinction are the ones trying to defend Gore against a well-deserved roasting? At least Snopes points out correctly that no one can claim to have created (or invented) the Internet. ARPANET in particular was developed well before Gore's first term as Senator. By the way, free market capitalism does not invent anything. Good and bad ideas alike can come from anywhere, including those that started as government projects. But free market capitalism helps push the good ideas forward. And that's better than some politician deciding that an idea is good simply because he or she said so. Tenchusatsu