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<blockquote data-quote="USincognito" data-source="post: 62374995" data-attributes="member: 21511"><p>The YT link you provided spreads the long debunked "Invented the Internet" meme right in the title. You also play fast and loose with the truth in that he claims to have "created it". His claim is that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet", and guess what? He did.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2000/10/05/gore_internet/" target="_blank">Did Gore invent the Internet? - Salon.com</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Several of the people who could claim to have invented the Internet, or key pieces of its protocols in particular, Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn are out there on the Net today defending Gore, asserting that he was the politician in Washington who took the initiative to support the Net in its early days.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Implicit in their argument is a broader awareness of what it took to create the Internet. Anything as successful as the Net is not and cannot be successful as technology alone; technology does not exist in a vacuum. And just as the Internet required the services of brains like Kahn and Cerf and all the others who contributed code to its foundations, it also needed bureaucratic and legislative patrons.</p><p></p><p>concluding:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Thats what youll hear from Phillip Hallam-Baker, a former member of the CERN Web development team that created the basic structure of the World Wide Web. Hallam-Baker calls the campaign to tar Gore as a delusional Internet inventor a calculated piece of political propaganda to deny Gore credit for what is probably his biggest achievement. </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">In the early days of the Web, says Hallam-Baker, who was there, he was a believer, not after the fact when our success was already established he gave us help when it counted. He got us the funding to set up at MIT after we got kicked out of CERN for being too successful. He also personally saw to it that the entire federal government set up Web sites. Before the White House site went online, he would show the prototype to each agency director who came into his office. At the end he would click on the link to their agency site. If it returned Not Found the said director got a powerful message that he better have a Web site before he next saw the veep. </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">That sounds like a pretty good description of the kind of initiative Gore claimed credit for in the first place. So the next time you hear an Al Gore, Internet inventor joke, think about the strange twisted path a politicians words can take in other peoples hands and be glad we can use the Internet to try to straighten it out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="USincognito, post: 62374995, member: 21511"] The YT link you provided spreads the long debunked "Invented the Internet" meme right in the title. You also play fast and loose with the truth in that he claims to have "created it". His claim is that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet", and guess what? He did. [url=http://www.salon.com/2000/10/05/gore_internet/]Did Gore invent the Internet? - Salon.com[/url] [indent]Several of the people who could claim to have invented the Internet, or key pieces of its protocols in particular, Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn are out there on the Net today defending Gore, asserting that he was the politician in Washington who took the initiative to support the Net in its early days. Implicit in their argument is a broader awareness of what it took to create the Internet. Anything as successful as the Net is not and cannot be successful as technology alone; technology does not exist in a vacuum. And just as the Internet required the services of brains like Kahn and Cerf and all the others who contributed code to its foundations, it also needed bureaucratic and legislative patrons.[/indent] concluding: [indent]Thats what youll hear from Phillip Hallam-Baker, a former member of the CERN Web development team that created the basic structure of the World Wide Web. Hallam-Baker calls the campaign to tar Gore as a delusional Internet inventor a calculated piece of political propaganda to deny Gore credit for what is probably his biggest achievement. In the early days of the Web, says Hallam-Baker, who was there, he was a believer, not after the fact when our success was already established he gave us help when it counted. He got us the funding to set up at MIT after we got kicked out of CERN for being too successful. He also personally saw to it that the entire federal government set up Web sites. Before the White House site went online, he would show the prototype to each agency director who came into his office. At the end he would click on the link to their agency site. If it returned Not Found the said director got a powerful message that he better have a Web site before he next saw the veep. That sounds like a pretty good description of the kind of initiative Gore claimed credit for in the first place. So the next time you hear an Al Gore, Internet inventor joke, think about the strange twisted path a politicians words can take in other peoples hands and be glad we can use the Internet to try to straighten it out.[/indent] [/QUOTE]
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