Icarus
I don't want to enter this debate, but I have a question if you don't mind.
I'm doing some research on the beginning of the Internet, and would like to know if you could point me to the source for this (book, website, or whatever)
My PM and e-mail are both available if you don't want to answer here.
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FICTION: Al Gore claimed responsibility for inventing the Internet in the 1990's.
FACT : Shocked scientists were quick to speak out, explaining that the Internet had been in widespread use by government and educational institutions since the early 1970's.
FALSE.
Gore never said he invented the internet, and what you are referring to was the ARPANET not the internet. Furthermore:
Al Gore said "During my term in Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet", which he did. In March 1986, when workstation computers were still something found mostly in laboratories, Gore sponsored the Supercomputer Network Study Act, Senate Bill 2594, which proposed to link the nation's supercomputers into a single system, when forward-looking companies such as Apple still didn't even have e-mail !
One of Gore's Republican colleagues, Sen. Slade Gorton of Washington, credited him at the time for introducing a bill that would "create {note that word} a high-capacity national research and education network to link up supercomputers and databases around the country."
In testimony to a House committee, Gore said: "I genuinely believe that the creation of this nationwide network ... will create an environment where work stations are common in homes and even small businesses."
I don't want to enter this debate, but I have a question if you don't mind.
I'm doing some research on the beginning of the Internet, and would like to know if you could point me to the source for this (book, website, or whatever)
My PM and e-mail are both available if you don't want to answer here.
{Who's gonna be first to tell me this post is Off-Topic?}
FICTION: Al Gore claimed responsibility for inventing the Internet in the 1990's.
FACT : Shocked scientists were quick to speak out, explaining that the Internet had been in widespread use by government and educational institutions since the early 1970's.
FALSE.
Gore never said he invented the internet, and what you are referring to was the ARPANET not the internet. Furthermore:
Al Gore said "During my term in Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet", which he did. In March 1986, when workstation computers were still something found mostly in laboratories, Gore sponsored the Supercomputer Network Study Act, Senate Bill 2594, which proposed to link the nation's supercomputers into a single system, when forward-looking companies such as Apple still didn't even have e-mail !
One of Gore's Republican colleagues, Sen. Slade Gorton of Washington, credited him at the time for introducing a bill that would "create {note that word} a high-capacity national research and education network to link up supercomputers and databases around the country."
In testimony to a House committee, Gore said: "I genuinely believe that the creation of this nationwide network ... will create an environment where work stations are common in homes and even small businesses."