Can anyone produce a quote where Al Gore stated that he "invented" the internet?

Question

The fact is, you can't, because he never said it. It's all Republican propaganda. The fact is, he said, "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." He was, in fact, very instumental in creating the Internet. If you don't believe it, read this article: http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_10/wiggins/#w6

Dummy, that's the same quote that I quoted him as saying.....he doesn't say that he invented the internet, he says that he took the initiative to create the internet, along with many other issues. He DID help create the internet, deal with it.

Andy, i haven't been proven wrong. He never said it, period.

Shorty, read the article. It expands on everything that he did in congress to help create the internet.

ic3d2, that is an absolute lie. You need to go back and look at what he did as a congressman. Without what he, and a few others , were supporting, there would be no internet. Even as VP, he did a lot. Look it up.

Answer 1

The "I invented the internet" issue is an example of how the Republicans twist truth, throw lies and then hide their own ideas behind it--rather than run on their own merits. I have heard a lot of mud being flung at Gore and Kerry. Just like the swift boat issue with Kerry...Kerry may or may not have deserved the medals he got, but no one, especially people like Bush or Cheny can throw any stones because they never even served in war--I can imagine that many medals were given to men just doing their job and were in the right place and the right time to do something...it takes courage to volunteer

"Kerry's first tour of duty was as an ensign on the guided missile frigate USS Gridley. On February 9, 1968, the Gridley set sail for a Western Pacific deployment. The next day, Kerry requested duty in Vietnam, listing as his first preference a position as the commander of a Fast Patrol Craft (PCF), also known as a "Swift boat." These 50-foot boats have aluminum hulls and have little or no armor, but are heavily armed and rely on speed. (Kerry's second choice was to be an officer in a river patrol boat, or "PBR", squadron.) "I didn't really want to get involved in the war," Kerry said in a book of Vietnam reminiscences published in 1986. "When I signed up for the swift boats, they had very little to do with the war. They were engaged in coastal patrolling and that's what I thought I was going to be doing." [10]"

Even though he thought he was in a relatively safe place, the fact that he was in active service in a war zone VOLUNTARILY put him in the position of being used in a different way than he might have wanted. As an officer, he knew that he could be used in any way his superiors thought fit, unlike Bush who had trouble proving he fullfilled his home gurad duty.

Gore brought a bill to Congress to help create the internet, the bill was his baby. He never said otherwise. It is an example of lies on the part of the Right.

Answer 2

No I can't, but I'll try to find what he did say. I believe it was very much like what "shut up dummy" has for an answer. Here it is:

March 1999 interview with Wolf Blitzer, Gore said, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

"Taken in context, the sentence, despite some initial ambiguity, means that as a congressman Gore promoted the system we enjoy today, not that he could patent the science, though that's how the quotation has been manipulated. Hence the disingenuous substitution of "inventing" for the actual language."

What is Ironic, Is that it is the Internet media, that has any chance of exposing "The Bush Team" For what they really are. Now that's Poetic Justice. Lucky for us, the rich do not control the content of the internet, as they do most every other form of mass media.

Answer 3

I have the actual sound bit but it is a skeleton saying it as a joke. He did work on the Internet as you said but the way it was stated, he did it all by himself. By no means true. It was invented/created by a group of people in the 60s for military purposes. It all depends on how you see it. Some may see it as that he associated with others on doing it (what happend) and others may associate that the quote said he alone invented the Internet.

Its interesting to think that this quote can mean two different things and it does. So in actuality, he did say but he also didn't

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=al+gore+internet

EDIT: That ic... guy has some points. oooo. He may not have helped create it but instead he might have instead of improved it, thus making you wrong. This is exciting

Answer 4

I agree, he did not say that he invented it (wrote the 2 billion lines of code that govern the internet) but that he helped create it (provided the bill that provided funding for those who did write the lines of code). And I agree that the obviously conservative media (why so many believe it is liberal is beyond me) twisted that around to make him look like a fool, but in this instance his advisors should have seen that coming and reworded that. The second I read him saying that I knew where that was going even before I read the rest of the article, and the ones who are trained to see it should have seen it beforehand. This was bad for everybody if you ask me.

Answer 5

A little dialog on the subject can be found at:

http://sethf.com/gore/

However, Gore had nothing, absolutely nothing when it comes to the internet. He was just Vice President at the time when it became famous to the masses.

The internet came from Arpanet, see the history of Arpanet at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET and note the dates 1963, 1966. Gore was 15 at the time and the only the knew about computers was from science fiction where his brain is today.

In 1979 I was using the early Arpanet at the California State University System. I was chatting (i.e. Instant Messaging with other students at other universities) and using e-mail. Gore did nothing, except take credit for it.

The businesses of the world, research organizations, universities developed the internet for their interests.

Answer 6

Gore quote:
"But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
March 9, 1999 during CNN's "Late Edition" show

Answer 7

No,it's bullpoop & we know it but the neo-cons had their way & now look at the mess our great country is in,what with the exploding national debt & senseless war! If the election hadn't been stolen from Gore In 2000 by 5 republicans on the supreme court,we would NOT be in Iraq & the whole world would be better off & more peaceful!

Answer 8

A matter of semantics, but Al Gore DID stick his foot in his mouth.

Answer 9

Ok. Can you tell me what he did that he took the initiative to create the internet?

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Ok - but I don't think that was CREATING the internet was it?

It was created in the 60's. so he had NOTHING to do with the creation of it.....

http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/

Answer 10

second time asking the same question and again you have been proven wrong!!! Give it up

do you think denial is a river in egypt! read the artical you are spinning you damnocratic lies in to it.