Short Wave Sportfishing wrote in message
Try reading my reply to basskisser.

I did. The article to which I posted a link says that "No Reasonable
Person" could interpret what Gore actually said as a claim that he
invented the internet. Are you a reasonable person?

Oh yes I am more than reasonable.

Again:
Clearly, although Gore's phrasing was clumsy (and self-serving), he
was not claiming that he "invented" the Internet (in the sense of
having designed or implemented it), but that he was responsible for
helping to create the environment (in an economic and legislative
sense) that fostered the development of the Internet. Al Gore might
not know nearly as much about the Internet and other technologies as
his image would have us believe, and he certainly has been guilty of
stretching (if not outright breaking) the truth before, but to believe
that Gore seriously thought he could take credit for the "invention"
of the Internet — in the sense offered by the media — is just silly.