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Originally Posted by 78BO
I guess you missed the part that Cerf and Bob said "to our knowledge".
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You're suggesting that the recognized fathers of the internet are simply unaware of another politician giving them greater support? Still sticking with that? Uh huh. Right.
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That is in no way saying Gore created or invented the internet. That's simply implying that he helped get it started by helping pass things in congress.
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What Cerf and Kahn created were generic network protocols. The difference between the internet and any generic network are the policies regulating it. Gore was largely responsible for enacting those policies. Without those policies, the internet would have evolved into just another privately owned and operated network, nothing different from the networks before it or the other networks in existence today.
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And even then they didn't say that until after Gore looked stupid.
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So what? Someone accuses you of lying; your friends back you up. Are they just shills for agreeing with you?
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It's a sham, and if you want to believe it that's fine. But again, if it was at all real or credible, don't you thing he would have backed it up on the election trail? Instead he was side stepping it. He wanted as far away from it as possible. Why is that? Because it's all in his head lol.
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Except it's not in his head - he does deserve a lot of the credit. Sole credit, definitely not, but Eisenhower doesn't deserve sole credit for the Interstate Highway System either.
You can read the congressional record, look at when and how Gore got involved in developing public policy over what would eventually become the internet. Or, you can listen to late-night comedians and political mudslingers. It's obvious and unfortunate that you've chosen to listen to the pundits instead of the record in this matter, and are unable to give credit where it is due. History will remember Cerf's and Kahn's high praise long after the jokes and criticism die out.