Where and when did Al Gore say he invented the internet, could I get a link to that please?

Question

Any solid link - a youtube clip maybe?

I think that this is a lie about the former Vice President, I dont think theres any proof of an actual speech where Al Gore said he invented the internet.

Prove me wrong please

Here you go,
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

Never said he invented the internet

Answer 1

a non-intellectual person, who does not have a deep command of analyzing English sentences and word meaning, will interpret his statement "I too the intuitive to create the Internet (and other initiatives)" to mean that he is saying he invented it....however, what that means to someone who has is more completely literate that he took steps as an elected official to help pave the way for it...in other words put tax dollars into it to help it grow. It would never have been much more than a minor communication device without the vast multi-billion dollar network of today...and that would never have been implemented without public support. He never claimed other wise. He never took sole credit

This lie is similar to the lie about Kerry being a coward....was Kerry on a boat in a river in Vietnam being shot at? How can any reasonable person deduce that Kerry was a coward.

Answer 2

Gore and the Internet
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet" Gore said when asked to cite accomplishments that separate him from another Democratic presidential hopeful, former Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey, during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN on March 9, 1999.

Gore supported technological advances related to the advancement of the Internet, but to say that HE took the initiative in creating the Internet is a bit much.

(Sources: Transcript http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/18390.html )

(Note: Lots of people seem to enjoy professing that
information about Gore saying he "invented" the Internet is wrong, that he did support things which helped get the Internet moving, etc. First, I know he never said he "invented" the Internet. Please notice the quote above. Second, saying that he took the initiative in CREATING the Internet is still a funny statement since the Internet was already created and being used (ex: file copying via the UUCP protocol and e-mail) by the time he was elected to Congress. One can't take the "initiative" to "create" something which has already been created.)

Answer 3

Awww, lighten up. It was just a play on words that brought this saying into existence. Some time ago, Al Gore, during some kind of speech or verbal presentation, got a little overly creative with something he was talking about and he strung some words together in a rather ambiguous form that, taken a certain way, appeared to infer that he had some personal involvement in the development of the Internet. Nobody with half a brain thought for a moment that this was what he was actually saying, but you know how it is in the media..........they are to words what the Political Cartoonist is to pictures.... they make charicatures of what was actually said, and spin their own images around them.

LOLOL I felt really sorry for Dan Quayle, who is, of course, educated enough to know that there is no "e" on the end of potato. But he just did always seem to have a way of stumbling over his mouth, too, and it gave us all a lot of harmless bellylaughs for a while.

Answer 4

Gore said he (and other senators) 'took the initiative of creating the Internet'. And he was exactly right.

When the US Military no longer wanted the Internet, Gore (and the other senators) proposed federal funding to expand the Internet and make it more available to the general public.

Back in the 80s, before he was VP, Gore was one of the few people in Congress who was technologically aware. He foresaw the Internet becoming what it is today. I give him a lot of credit! When you look at how much commerce is conducted over the Internet, how much money is made, it was the best investment we ever made!

Of course the Repubs couldn't give him credit for this, could they?

Answer 5

It has always annoyed me that politician take credit for things where their contribution is to get taxpayer money to fund it, but it is such a common practice that it hardly seems fair to single out Gore for doing it. The key element that changed communication between computers into the Internet was the development of Mosaic. Prior to its introduction accessing files on remote computer was done using FTP protocols which was awkward and time consuming. Funding for Mosaic program was initiated by then-Senator Al Gore's High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991.

Answer 6

Although Al Gore never claimed to have invented the Internet, he did discuss his role in Internet development in an interview with Wolf Blitzer of Cable News Network. The interview took place on March 9, 1999 during CNN's "Late Edition" show. Specifically, what Gore said was "I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

A cynic might observe that "creating the Internet" and "inventing the Internet" are tantamount to the same exaggeration. But let's look at the entire quote in the context of the colloquy with Blitzer. Here is Blitzer's entire query to Gore:

BLITZER: I want to get to some of the substance of domestic and international issues in a minute, but let's just wrap up a little bit of the politics right now.
Why should Democrats, looking at the Democratic nomination process, support you instead of Bill Bradley, a friend of yours, a former colleague in the Senate? What do you have to bring to this that he doesn't necessarily bring to this process?

Clearly, Blitzer is asking Gore to offer an explanation of how he differs as a politician from other politicians in general, and his rival at the time, Bill Bradley, in particular. Here is Gore's entire response to Blitzer's question:

GORE: Well, I will be offering - I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. And it will be comprehensive and sweeping. And I hope that it will be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be.
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. 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.

During a quarter century of public service, including most of it long before I came into my current job, I have worked to try to improve the quality of life in our country and in our world. And what I've seen during that experience is an emerging future that's very exciting, about which I'm very optimistic, and toward which I want to lead.

Here Gore appears to have been caught off guard a bit by the question, rambling a bit as he seeks to vocalize a responsive answer. He emphasizes his work during his years in the Congress - Gore served in the House and later the Senate - as well as his leadership on various issues. Perhaps not showing the most elegant variation in words, he mentions "initiative" three times. Clearly his overall message is that he worked hard on a number of issues, and took a leadership position relative to others - presumably including his rival Bradley. The overall thrust is that Gore paints himself as a forward-looking legislator and political leader.

Answer 7

http://www.gargaro.com/algore.html
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet" Gore said when asked to cite accomplishments that separate him from another Democratic presidential hopeful, former Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey, during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN on March 9, 1999.

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000/transcript.gore/

Another great political question... lol

Answer 8

there is no media proof..i could not find it. But, in the late 90s...Gore acutally did say with a smile on his face...that "I helped invent the internet...I sure did". It was all over the news. I remember. You don't need proof when most people already know he said it. Have you ever did a search on the internet...that Gore said he invented?

That link is also full of bogus news. For everyone that did not check any link off that site...keep checking.

Answer 9

"Al gore invented the internet" was a humerous comment referring to Gore hinting that the internet would have never been if he hadnt pushed for some technology bills in the early 90s.

Answer 10

He didn't claim to have invented the Internet. He made some comment about making things easier for the Internet to exist and the right seized upon that, reworded it and spread the lie that he said he had invented the Internet just to discredit him. They can't talk issues they have to make personal attacks. It is the only way they think they can win. People fell for it before but people have wised up and it won't work this time.