Campbell
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Yep.....the political fable of the 20th century:
If President Eisenhower had said in the mid-1960s that he, while president, "took the initiative in creating the Interstate Highway System," he would not have been the subject of dozens and dozens of editorials lampooning him for claiming he "invented" the concept of highways or implying that he personally went out and dug ditches across the country to help build the roadway. Everyone would have understood that Ike meant he was a driving force behind the legislation that created the highway system, and this was the very same concept Al Gore was expressing about himself with his Internet statement.
Actually Comrade, it would be more like if President CARTER said in the mid-70's that he took the initiative to create the interstate highway system.
Blowhard Al was taking credit for technology that had been around for a couple of decades.
Yeah I know, he's a party member so you are required to lie for him, still..
Let's see....here's what Snopes, the official "lie detector" of the Internet says about it:
"Despite the derisive references that continue even today, former Vice-President Al Gore never claimed that he "invented" the Internet, nor did he say anything that could reasonably be interpreted that way. The "Al Gore said he 'invented' the Internet" put-downs were misleading, out-of-context distortions of something he said during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "Late Edition" program on 9 March 1999. When asked to describe what distinguished him from his challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Gore replied (in part):
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system."
Although Vice-President Gore's phrasing might have been a bit clumsy (and perhaps self-serving), he was not claiming that he "invented" the Internet in the sense of having designed or implemented it, but rather that he was responsible, in an economic and legislative sense, for fostering the development the technology that we now know as the Internet.
I was working 40 hours a week and sometimes Saturdays while we were converting all our remote systems from ARPANET to TCP/IP. We used a full blown RCA Spectra 70 computer system to coordinate communications from about 60 classified processing centers in the mainland U S and Hawaii.....there were some strategic air command (SAC) centers which processed flight information for the big bombers which at that time had flights in the air, on their way to a target 24/7. That's what the SAC was all about.
Now....go ahead and start arguing with Snopes because I'm through with your prejudiced Right Wing Republican ass!!!
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