What do they mean when they say "Al Gore invented the internet"???

Question

Is that like some running joke or something?
where did this originate?? is there any truth to it??

Answer 1

The claim is essentially true - of course it would have been more precise to say 'funding the creation' rather than 'creating'. In the 1980s DARPA, which is part of the Pentagon and financed the first incarnation of the internet, defunded a number of projects, including civilian use of the internet, which weren't directly related to military applications. Gore played a major role in seeing that the internet project was retained under the National Science Foundation, which created nsfnet. Nsfnet ultimately became the internet we know and love today.

Answer 2

Claim: Vice-President Al Gore claimed that he "invented" the Internet.

Status: False.

Origins: Despite the derisive references that continue even today, Al Gore did not claim he "invented" the Internet, nor did he say anything that could reasonably be interpreted that way. The "Al Gore said he 'invented' the Internet" put-downs were misleading, out-of-context distortions of something he said during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "Late Edition" program on 9 March 1999. When asked to describe what distinguished him from his challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Gore replied (in part):

"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."

Answer 3

Al Gore did not invent the internet. The internet's been around since the fifties used exclusively for the military during the Cold War. It's funny to see analog internet back then.

Answer 4

Al Gore did not "invent the Internet". It has been around since the late 50's and early 60's. He did, however, work to bring it into the mainstream.

Answer 5

Scientists on the U. S. superior examine initiatives employer invented the technologies interior the previous due 60s, yet porting the backbone far flung from the government and into commercial area exchange into initiated in 1995. Scientists on the Dial Corp invented unsolicited mail. Scientists from Zyrcon-7 of the Beta quadrant invented a droid they call Al Gore.

Answer 6

There is no truth in that statement. Al Gore used that when running for president a few years back. He claimed he invented the net, so now everyone is making a mockery of it.

Answer 7

while AL gore was vice pres, he said that he created the Internet and was going to take us into the 21 century. i guess he forgot the Internet had been around since the 60's

Answer 8

During Al Gore's campaign, he was talking about his career, and he said he "took the initiative to develop a national internet". No joke. I don't have a handy reference, but that's what he said.

Answer 9

Wolf Blitzer interviewed Al Gore, and to one question he responded 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. [57]." from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore#The_Internet_and_the_Webbys

Answer 10

It's a running joke. He made the claim during a presidential debate against Bush.

Looking back, I can't believe he lost a debate to George....DOH!