basskisser wrote:
Sean Corbett wrote:

You wrote:


Sean Corbett wrote:

You wrote:


"basskisser" wrote in message
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I guess the confusion comes from the fact that left-leaning
persons can't comprehend "initiative".

But the real question is what, if anything, did Gore actually do to
create the modern Internet? According to Vincent Cerf, a senior
vice president with MCI Worldcom who's been called the Father of
the Internet, "The Internet would not be where it is in the United
States without the strong support given to it and related research
areas by the Vice President in his current role and in his earlier
role as Senator."


The inventor of the Mosaic Browser, Marc Andreesen, credits Gore
with making his work possible. He received a federal grant through
Gore's High Performance Computing Act. The University of
Pennsylvania's Dave Ferber says that without Gore the Internet
"would not be where it is today."


Joseph E. Traub, a computer science professor at Columbia
University, claims that Gore "was perhaps the first political
leader to grasp the importance of networking the country. Could we
perhaps see an end to cheap shots from politicians and pundits
about inventing the Internet?"

THAT'S initiative.


Sean will not respond to the specifics you've provided above. He
can't.

Anybody can cut-and-paste quotes from a single website.

And that's all it took to prove you dead wrong.
Now, where IS that quote that you and Rush and Hannity hold so dear??

Show where I cited that quote. I'm the one - the ONLY one - here who
posted the ACTUAL quote.


You agreed with Shortwave on the issue, and HE said that Gore "invented
the internet".



You can agrue and throw quotes at each other till the cows come home.
As an impartial observer (ie non-American) I can tell you that around
here it is a common joke that Al Gore claims he invented the internet.
That's the fact of the matter, despite what the truth may be.

Most Canadians that I have talked to about it like Al Gore, think he's
smart, believe he actually won the election in 2000 and know that he
probably misspoke or was misquoted about "inventing" the internet.

But if you say the name "Al Gore" just about anywhere in the world, you
will either get blank looks or "Ain't that the guy who actually won the
first election against GWB and thinks he invented the internet?"

Sorry Mr. Gore, but that's just the way it is.

And we don't get Rush's show up here and I don't even know who Hannity
is (except I've seen him spooffed on SNL)