you do know he never said he invented the internet right?
Of course not. He didn't
invent it. He was just responsible for bringing it into existence. While there may be a big difference in just what role he is claiming he is still a fool to be claiming to have had a very large role.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
Well maybe he just mispoke. Surely he meant to say that he had some intitiative as a congress men in the development of the internet instead of saying that he had
the initiative.
Unfortunately, that is not even true.
"Preliminary discussions of how the ARPANET would be designed began in 1967, and a request for proposals went out the following year. In 1969, the Defense Department commissioned the ARPANET.
Gore was 21-years-old at the time. He wasn't even done with law school at Vanderbilt University. It would be eight more years before Gore would be elected to the US House of Representatives as a freshman Democrat with scant experience in passing legislation, let alone ambitious proposals.
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. "
"Gore played no positive role in the decisions that led to the creation of the Internet as it now exists -- that is, in the opening of the Internet to commercial traffic," said Steve Allen, vice president for communications at the conservative Progress and Freedom Foundation. "
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1999/03/18390
If you can name one decision Gore initiated that lead to the creation of the internet in anyh significant way we would like to hear it.
P.S. He and tipper were also the inspiration for the novel Love Story. The author denied it.