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| blowfish Member  874 Posts 1/08 |  Posted - Mar 22 2008 : 10:38PMWarning geek porn. BigDog By the way DARPA is the same group that invented the internet despite what Gore says. [Link] |
Hardware  All-Star Member Your other left 14594 Posts 3/02 | Posted - Mar 22 2008 : 10:57PM [Link] |
| Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99 | Posted - Mar 22 2008 : 11:20PM [Link] |
| Leyden Senior Member The people have spoken. I'm a nitpicking dick. Woo! 8751 Posts 1/04 | Posted - Mar 22 2008 : 11:57PM [Link] |
| blowfish Member 874 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Mar 23 2008 : 6:56AM [Link] |
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| blowfish Member 874 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Mar 23 2008 : 6:57AM [Link] |
| Leyden Senior Member The people have spoken. I'm a nitpicking dick. Woo! 8751 Posts 1/04 | Posted - Mar 23 2008 : 11:05AM [Link] |
| blowfish Member 874 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Mar 23 2008 : 1:31PM In a March 1999 interview with Wolf Blitzer, Gore said, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." He may have misspoke but its clear as day what he said. All the spinning in the world couldn't undo it. Just like Senator George Allen's "macca" statement. He probably didn't mean or even knew what he said but it sunk him anyway. [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Mar 23 2008 : 6:41PM |
| blowfish Member 874 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Mar 23 2008 : 6:53PM [Link] |
| Bob All-Star Member 5516 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Mar 23 2008 : 7:36PM [Link] |
| blowfish Member 874 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Mar 23 2008 : 8:30PM [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Mar 23 2008 : 8:47PM [url=439738]VP Gore was the first or surely among the first of the members of Congress to become a strong supporter of advanced networking while he served as Senator. As far back as 1986, he was holding hearings on this subject (supercomputing, fiber networks...) and asking about their promise and what could be done to realize them. Bob Kahn, with whom I worked to develop the Internet design in 1973, participated in several hearings held by then-Senator Gore and I recall that Bob introduced the term ``information infrastructure'' in one hearing in 1986. It was clear that as a Senator and now as Vice President, Gore has made it a point to be as well-informed as possible on technology and issues that surround it. Now, in context of Gore's answer to Blitzer's question to describe what distinguished him from his challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Bill Bradley, an answer of "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." in no way implies that Gore thinks that he invented the Internet. While a Senator, Gore sponsored the 1988 National High-Performance Computer Act (which established a national computing plan and helped link universities and libraries via a shared network) and cosponsored the Information Infrastructure and Technology Act of 1992 (which opened the Internet to commercial traffic). Given those two bills alone, it's pretty fair to say that Gore took initiative in promoting bills which had a major impact on creating the infrastructure of the Internet as we know it today. [Link] |
| Leyden Senior Member The people have spoken. I'm a nitpicking dick. Woo! 8751 Posts 1/04 | Posted - Mar 23 2008 : 9:05PM [Link] |
| blowfish Member 874 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Mar 23 2008 : 9:14PM Wiki has concise history of the internet. Tell me what never would have happened if Gore never existed? [Link] |
| Leyden Senior Member The people have spoken. I'm a nitpicking dick. Woo! 8751 Posts 1/04 | Posted - Mar 23 2008 : 9:22PM [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Mar 23 2008 : 9:30PM Had Gore not sponsored those bills, would someone else have done so? Probably, it's likely that they would have occurred later than they did. The fact remains that Gore did sponsor the bills that helped the Internet convert from an academic and scientific network into what it has become. Have lots of other people had a similar hand in the fate of the Internet? Absolutely. But, among members of Congress, Gore was the leader in promoting this technology. Given the question that he had been asked by Blitzer, his reply was a fair one. It's always been a group of people who are either too stupid to understand or who have intentionally twisted Gore's reply to imply that he was claiming to have written the programs that became the Internet. [Link] |
| blowfish Member 874 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Mar 23 2008 : 9:47PM [Link] |
| AlexPanzer Deactivated User 1593 Posts 6/03 | Posted - Mar 23 2008 : 10:42PM [Link] |
| Gunzo Senior Member 1377 Posts 2/05 | Posted - Mar 24 2008 : 4:42AM [Link] |
| blowfish Member 874 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Mar 24 2008 : 5:31AM [Link] |
| AlexPanzer Deactivated User 1593 Posts 6/03 | Posted - Mar 24 2008 : 6:40PM [Link] |
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