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<blockquote data-quote="Ryan Lantzy" data-source="post: 66324" data-attributes="member: 7"><p>Re: You're welcome.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, he actually said, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." Which IMO was a way to construe his actual level of involvement to gain an advantage in a political race - what most people take issue with.</p><p></p><p>Gore's involvement may have been influential in providing funding and establishing government programs that supported the development of the Internet, but IMHO that ball was already big and rolling pretty fast by the time Gore showed up. I don't know all the specific legislation that Gore introduced, supported, and/or voted for, but I believe much of it had to do with the interconnection of NSFNET (which was an early component of the Internet that had replaced CSNET, an NSF network that could access ARPANET) with other networks and super-computing sites. I believe some of the funding that he provided went into the research that Marc Andreessen did at U. of Illinois to develop the Mosaic web browser, which later formed the basis for Netscape. The thing is, the protocols for the world wide web (arguably the most successful aspect of the modern Internet) came out of CERN in Switzerland. Mosaic would have been useless with out the work at CERN by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and the notion of a hyper-linked interface was even then, not news. Douglas Engelbart demonstrated hyperlinks, a GUI, and a mouse 23 years prior to the contributions of Berners-Lee and 9 years before Gore was even elected to Congress.</p><p></p><p>Much (or possibly all) of this work would have impossible without the work of Dennis Ritchey at Bell Labs on the C Programming Language and his development of the UNIX operating system.</p><p></p><p>I think the point is that no one man can be given all of the credit for developing the Internet or for its growth to where it is today. What I (and most people I think) find unpalatable is the crediting of the advances of society laid on one man's shoulders such as Edison, Jobs, and in this case, Gore - when that is clearly not the case. Much of this work (especially in the case of the Internet) was one person using the prior work of others to build new tools and technologies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ryan Lantzy, post: 66324, member: 7"] Re: You're welcome. Yeah, he actually said, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." Which IMO was a way to construe his actual level of involvement to gain an advantage in a political race - what most people take issue with. Gore's involvement may have been influential in providing funding and establishing government programs that supported the development of the Internet, but IMHO that ball was already big and rolling pretty fast by the time Gore showed up. I don't know all the specific legislation that Gore introduced, supported, and/or voted for, but I believe much of it had to do with the interconnection of NSFNET (which was an early component of the Internet that had replaced CSNET, an NSF network that could access ARPANET) with other networks and super-computing sites. I believe some of the funding that he provided went into the research that Marc Andreessen did at U. of Illinois to develop the Mosaic web browser, which later formed the basis for Netscape. The thing is, the protocols for the world wide web (arguably the most successful aspect of the modern Internet) came out of CERN in Switzerland. Mosaic would have been useless with out the work at CERN by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and the notion of a hyper-linked interface was even then, not news. Douglas Engelbart demonstrated hyperlinks, a GUI, and a mouse 23 years prior to the contributions of Berners-Lee and 9 years before Gore was even elected to Congress. Much (or possibly all) of this work would have impossible without the work of Dennis Ritchey at Bell Labs on the C Programming Language and his development of the UNIX operating system. I think the point is that no one man can be given all of the credit for developing the Internet or for its growth to where it is today. What I (and most people I think) find unpalatable is the crediting of the advances of society laid on one man's shoulders such as Edison, Jobs, and in this case, Gore - when that is clearly not the case. Much of this work (especially in the case of the Internet) was one person using the prior work of others to build new tools and technologies. [/QUOTE]
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