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Al Gore never claimed that, btw, but he did recognize its importance and provided political support, even Vint Cerf said so: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/i

Al Gore never claimed that, btw, but he did recognize its importance and provided political support, even Vint Cerf said so: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/internet-of-lies/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/internet-of-lies/

dekhn 4y ago
there is an entire multiverse fan fic where Al Gore won the presidential election and we're all living in a post-scarcity society.
- JohnJamesRambo 4y ago
  I want to live there. My jar of mayo costed $5.50 with tax yesterday.
Xeoncross 4y ago
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet" Sounds like we're playing word games at this point. Imagine that, a politician playing word games.
serf 4y ago
>Al Gore never claimed that, btw, GORE: “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.” There are three ways to read the first sentence, two of which take the presumption that Al Gore invented the internet. Snopes is so half-wrong that it's getting to be easy to ignore. In other words , he did say that, he just didn't mean for people to interpret his ambiguous statement in that fashion. aside : the word of the day is initiative.
- zuminator 4y ago
  Gore absolutely deserves to be dinged for speaking ambiguously in a way that leans towards greatly inflating his contribution to the field. But at the same time, anyone who's ever read or written a résumé will readily recognize "took the initiative in creating" as CV-speak for "I assisted in some capacity, however minor." I expect the actual number of people misled by Gore's self-puffery to have been small to nonexistent.
jonah 4y ago
My ex's step father always said, "Well, if Al Gore invented the internet, I paid for it." Which, as the senior official at DARPA who authorized funding for the project, he kinda did. ;)
baldfat 4y ago
Why ruin a good meme with FACTS! People
- geozimm 4y ago
  absolutely - a good meme takes on a life of its own...
  - geocrasher 4y ago
    Right. Don't want to mess up the AlGoreithms that run the interwebz!
baldfat 4y ago

dekhn 4y ago

there is an entire multiverse fan fic where Al Gore won the presidential election and we're all living in a post-scarcity society.

JohnJamesRambo 4y ago
I want to live there. My jar of mayo costed $5.50 with tax yesterday.

Xeoncross 4y ago

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet" Sounds like we're playing word games at this point. Imagine that, a politician playing word games.

serf 4y ago

>Al Gore never claimed that, btw, GORE: “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.” There are three ways to read the first sentence, two of which take the presumption that Al Gore invented the internet. Snopes is so half-wrong that it's getting to be easy to ignore. In other words , he did say that, he just didn't mean for people to interpret his ambiguous statement in that fashion. aside : the word of the day is initiative.

zuminator 4y ago
Gore absolutely deserves to be dinged for speaking ambiguously in a way that leans towards greatly inflating his contribution to the field. But at the same time, anyone who's ever read or written a résumé will readily recognize "took the initiative in creating" as CV-speak for "I assisted in some capacity, however minor." I expect the actual number of people misled by Gore's self-puffery to have been small to nonexistent.

jonah 4y ago

My ex's step father always said, "Well, if Al Gore invented the internet, I paid for it." Which, as the senior official at DARPA who authorized funding for the project, he kinda did. ;)

baldfat 4y ago

Why ruin a good meme with FACTS! People

geozimm 4y ago
absolutely - a good meme takes on a life of its own...
- geocrasher 4y ago
  Right. Don't want to mess up the AlGoreithms that run the interwebz!

baldfat 4y ago