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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

You seriously went there? Wow.

For the record, no Al Gore did not claim to invent the internet. The exact comment he made in a 1999 Wolf Blitzer interview was "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

No, this is not a claim to have invented the internet. He was simply, albeit quite awkwardly, trying to imply that he played a significant role in bringing the internet to the masses. It was simply campaign rhetoric - something both sides are guilty of.

But it could easily be interpreted that Al Gore is claiming MUCH more responsibility for the evolution of the internet than he actually deserved.

But seriously?

Um... But he did play a significant roll. The High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991

Often referred to as the Gore Bill, it was created and introduced by then Senator Albert Gore, Jr.

Gore's legislation also helped fund the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, where a team of programmers, including Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, created the Mosaic Web browser, the commercial Internet's technological springboard. 'If it had been left to private industry, it wouldn't have happened,' Andreessen says of Gore's bill, 'at least, not until years later.'

Yes, seriously.