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Did Gore actually say that he invented the internet? The linked Wikipedia article says that it's an urban legend.

• garmaine 6y ago
  While I don't have the exact quote, it's something more along the lines of "my actions caused the creation of the Internet" or "the Internet wouldn't be here if it weren't for me." There's actually not one quote since it was multiple instances that he took credit for the Internet (as we know it today). And not wrongly, really: he sponsored bills which provided federal funding for the Internet backbone system and the broadband consumer transport networks that define the Internet we use today. But of course it was all too easy for some people to claim that he was taking credit for TCP/IP and HTTP.
• barbecue_sauce 6y ago
  The quote is "I took the initiative in creating the Internet" which is often misinterpreted as Al Gore saying he "created the internet" which I doubt was his actual intention. At a political/governmental level, he was actually quite instrumental in legitimizing and evangelizing the importance of network communications as well as funding programs that were necessary for its creation. He probably should have phrased it as "I took the initiative in the creation of the internet" or that he was "instrumental in the creation of the American internet".