You guys should take some of your own advise before you continue spreading lies.

He never said he "invented" the internet.

Check out what he said here:

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

It amazes me how people hear something thru some grapevine and take it as gospel without confirming.
That "don't let the facts get in the way" of a good character assasination attitude.

Just because the present administration does it continually does not make it acceptable.

G

It worked, but not at the right time.

Unfortunately, my fingers started typing before the my brain kicked in. I actually clicked "Cancel", but the reply was posted anyway.

I care nothing about stirring a political debate, nor bringing to surface the emotions that many folks can't/won't hold in.

Grrrr....I wasn't going to get into this thread, was I???

LOL

This past December, our local City Council voted to pave an old oil-top road with concrete, which will give some residents a better drive to and from their houses (a few blocks from my house). Construction began a couple of weeks ago.

Here's my question: Did the Councilman that (or any of the Council) actually PAVE the road?

What was it that the Council did? I'm looking for the VERB.

So....using the same logic, did Algore CREATE the Internet? Other than writing / co-sponsoring a piece of legislation, did he take any active part in the CREATION of it?

It's semantics, I know. But this is one of the most famous of Algore's slips....still not as funny as a lot of Bush-isms. B-)

If a specific city councilman in your town wrote and submitted a proposal for a new local ordinance that would create a new baseball field for local kids out of an old piece of property already owned by the city, and the city council approved it and funded it, would you not give that specific councilman credit for being the one who initiated the creation of that park?

Without the first law mentioned that Gore sponsored the "internet" would have remained a closed network exclusively for military contractors and researchers. Without the second law that he cosponsored the "internet" as we know it today would not exist.

Yes, he did more that sponsor those laws. He went all over the country talking to the people that were using networks, and to people that would ultimately benifit from the network and he pushed the concept of a unified national network harder than any other public figure.

No he did not invent the internet, and never claimed to. He does deserve more credit than any other single person for helping to make the internet happen. The geeks that wrote the code that physically made it work didn't create the internet. Not the internet we know today. The internet is far beyond the wires that connect it and the software that makes it work. It was laws that turned a government run private network over to public non profit organizations and gave them funding and a direction to go.

What you are describing is not the same thing.

Was this road paving a new process that will change the way the world drives on roads?

The internet has revolutionized the way the world communicates and relays information.

That is a lot different than a town council voting to repave a road.

G.