Do You Think That Al Gore Really Invented the Internet?
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This is what he actually said during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "Late Edition" program on 9 March 1999: \n\n"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."\n\nYou can decide for yourself whether he was actually claiming to have invented the Internet, or was he just being his usual pompous self (or both?)
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Al Gore claims he created it all...
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Noone ever owned it that I'm aware of.  There isn't really one person or group of people that created it.  It's been developing for a few decades, and is not anything like what it originally began as.  Currently the FCC makes and enforces rules for the internet.  Soon, it will be your internet access provider i.e. Comcast, AT&T, etc. who will decide how the internet works, if you can access it, and what websites you will be able to see.  You can thank Congress for that.
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yeah defintly al gore invented it bill helped
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I agree with the above poster. Here is some additional information:\n\nThe information highway is a term used especially in the 1990s to describe the Internet. The official project was dubbed the National Information Infrastructure (NII) and went beyond the interconnectivity of just computers; the scope broadened to include all types of data transmissions between a plethora of places, people, and devices. It is often associated with the US politician and former vice president, Al Gore, who promoted funding for programmes that led to aspects of the development of the Internet, although its currency was wider than merely Gore — many policy organisations made pronouncements about the so-called information highway or the variant information superhighway. Both terms are used less frequently now that for many people the Internet has become a less abstract and more concrete thing; the highway analogy, though useful and apt, has perhaps served its purpose.\n\nIt is used in early editions of Wired Magazine as well as Popular Mechanics.\n\nInternet denizens sometimes use these terms in reference to the terms' overuse by traditional popular media (and consequently by non-Internet-users) while the Internet was still becoming mainstream. Compare with the term Interweb. Many geeks often use it in a mocking tone, poking fun at the press for always being hopelessly behind in their description of technical matters.
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Umm... let me think about that one...\n\nHitler exterminated millions of innocent people.\nBin Laden directed the largest attack on US soil in recent history.\nHenry Ford revolutionized the process of vehicle manufacuring.\nSam Walton took cheap plastic $hit and turned it into a gold mine for trashy shoppers.\nAl Gore invented the internet (lol j/k on that one)\n\nUm...\nLinkin Park just made a couple good cd's that became good sellers to teeny-bopper girls and middle-aged men tired of the same old garbage that's been pumped out lately.
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Al Gore says he was responsible for it all...
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Creation of Internet - \nThe USSR's launch of Sputnik spurred the U.S. to create the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to regain a U.S. technological lead. DARPA created the Information Processing Technology Office to further the research of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment program, which had networked country-wide radar systems together for the first time. J. C. R. Licklider was selected to head the IPTO, and saw universal networking as a potential unifying human revolution. Licklider recruited Lawrence Roberts to head a project to implement a network, and Roberts based the technology on the work of Paul Baran who had written an exhaustive study for the U.S. Air Force that recommended packet switching to make a network highly robust and survivable. After much work, the first node went live at UCLA on October 29, 1969 on what would be called the ARPANET, the "eve" network of today's Internet. \n\nPeople behind it: Licklider, Lawrence Roberts, Paul Baran for the military\nFirst node went live: Oct 29, 1969, UCLA\nBirth place: UCLA campus\n\nThe first TCP/IP wide area network was operational by January 1, 1983 (this is technically the birth of the Internet), when the United States' National Science Foundation (NSF) constructed a university network backbone that would later become the NSFNet. It was then followed by the opening of the network to commercial interests in 1995. Important separate networks that offered gateways into, then later merged into the Internet include Usenet, Bitnet and the various commercial and educational X.25 networks such as Compuserve and JANET. The ability of TCP/IP to work over these pre-existing communication networks allowed for a great ease of growth. Use of Internet as a phrase to describe a single global TCP/IP network originated around this time.\n\nName first given to it: NSFNet\nFirst operational: Jan 1 1983 (birth of internet as we know it)\nNational campuses - birthplace of internet framework\n\nAs of January 2006, over 1 billion people use the Internet according to Internet World Stats
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Um, no. The internet is not an intelligent being. It's just a bunch of text and pictures hosted on different computers around the world.
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I think savetheinternet.com is true.\n\nGo Net Neutrality.
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Yes it's half true, but it isn't your computer, mine and Joe Bloggs, it's very large servers and data centre arrays that are 'logged on' that the Internet content is stored on. If they were switched off then yes, your friend is correct, the Internet would cease to exist. \n....................Added to above (Robin and Ma...)if all the Computers in the world were turned off the info would not "cease to exit" it would not be accessable until they were switched back on.
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Honestly, NO!  The speed of the internet is all based of the the speed that the data is sent through the system.  We have the Technology to make the internet 1000 times faster, BUT, people would loose too much money, and evolution would not be correct anymore.  So no matter how you look at it, man is holding man back, and the net will NOT speed up until they decide to release more technology.
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The Internet was the result of some visionary thinking by people in the early 1960s who saw great potential value in allowing computers to share information on research and development in scientific and military fields. J.C.R. Licklider of MIT, first proposed a global network of computers in 1962, and moved over to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in late 1962 to head the work to develop it. Leonard Kleinrock of MIT and later UCLA developed the theory of packet switching, which was to form the basis of Internet connections. Lawrence Roberts of MIT connected a Massachusetts computer with a California computer in 1965 over dial-up telephone lines. It showed the feasibility of wide area networking, but also showed that the telephone line's circuit switching was inadequate. Kleinrock's packet switching theory was confirmed. Roberts moved over to DARPA in 1966 and developed his plan for ARPANET. These visionaries and many more left unnamed here are the real founders of the Internet.\nThe Internet, then known as ARPANET, was brought online in 1969 under a contract let by the renamed Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) which initially connected four major computers at universities in the southwestern US (UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UCSB, and the University of Utah). The contract was carried out by BBN of Cambridge, MA under Bob Kahn and went online in December 1969. By June 1970, MIT, Harvard, BBN, and Systems Development Corp (SDC) in Santa Monica, Cal. were added. By January 1971, Stanford, MIT's Lincoln Labs, Carnegie-Mellon, and Case-Western Reserve U were added. In months to come, NASA/Ames, Mitre, Burroughs, RAND, and the U of Illinois plugged in. After that, there were far too many to keep listing here.\n\nThe Internet was designed in part to provide a communications network that would work even if some of the sites were destroyed by nuclear attack. If the most direct route was not available, routers would direct traffic around the network via alternate routes.\n\nThe early Internet was used by computer experts, engineers, scientists, and librarians. There was nothing friendly about it. There were no home or office personal computers in those days, and anyone who used it, whether a computer professional or an engineer or scientist or librarian, had to learn to use a very complex system.
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I don't see one. But I'll keep my eyes open for good solutions. I believe the WEB has caused gigantic problems in our society. Our youth has suddenly come to the conclusion that having a link to a response somehow 'proves' it's true.
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absolutely, if it's on the Internet, it must be true !
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I would say Tim Berners Lee, who basically invented the World Wide Web.  He also created the first web browser and currently directs the World Wide Web Consortium.
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Al Gore, that's the truth.