I had heard this year's ago and was wondering if it's true. If so, how do you "create the internet"?
2006-12-29 03:45:50 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
No, Al Gore didn't "create" the internet. The military actually set up the internet, but Gore had something to do with the funding and he kind of over played his involvement in his presidental campain
2006-12-29 03:49:02 · answer #1 · answered by Trish 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The "Internet" as we know it today was actually a computer network created for use by the military. If the fact that Al Gore was a U.S. Senator during the funding, development, and implementation of the Internet, then yes you may be able to say he was involved in the creation.
2006-12-29 11:49:21 · answer #2 · answered by smoothie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Internet was originally developed by DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, as a means to share information on defense research between involved universities and defense research facilities. It was originally called ARPANET(Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork). The concept was developed starting in 1964, and the first messages passed were between UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute in 1969. Leonard Kleinrock of MIT had published the first paper on packet switching theory in 1961. Since networking computers was new to begin with, standards were being developed on the fly. Once the concept was proven, the organizations involved started to lay out some ground rules for standardization. One of the most important was the communications protocol, TCP/IP, developed by Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn in 1974. In the 1980's, the Internet started getting released for commercial use.
2006-12-29 11:52:01 · answer #3 · answered by dsd 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Create, initiate, invent . . . these things do mean different things. When thinking Al Gore, use the word "initiate."
Al 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." - CNN's Late Edition, March 9, 1999.
2006-12-29 12:00:05 · answer #4 · answered by Running_Dad 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO! This is a case of another politician (Republican/Democrat or Other) stretching the truth by omitting words in their intended sentence.
Al Gore, while in the Senate, was part (or head) of a committee that allowed/permitted growth of the internet when the question came to the Senate floor. Their lack of blocking/ limiting the internet allowed for its massive growth here in the states.
2006-12-29 11:51:33 · answer #5 · answered by anerasescovedo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where in the world did you hear that? You mean the Al Gore that was the Vice President?
2006-12-29 11:49:27 · answer #6 · answered by Sandi A 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the ARPANET (precursor to the internet) was developed by a number of universities and then the government got involved and it just grew from there
Al Gore was probably smokin pot in college when the ARPANET started
2006-12-29 11:53:45 · answer #7 · answered by thuglife 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it's not true and if you read the whole transcript associated with this fallacy you will come to realize that the Republican spin team took a sound byte, used it out of context and whored it around for their own gain. Politics at its' worst!
2006-12-29 11:49:34 · answer #8 · answered by Doug H 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely NOT. The precurser to today's internet was developed in the early'70s, though I can't remember if it was MIT or IBM that did it.
2006-12-29 11:48:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No the U.S. military created it so they could communciate with people far away during war in a timely way
2006-12-29 11:48:36 · answer #10 · answered by matt b 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋