Actually, Gore played a very crucial role in the development of the commercial internet.

You would know this if you talked to anyone who participated in its development.  How close are you to those individuals Rob?  Ever had a conversation with Vint Cerf?  I worked him at both WorldCom and UUNET.

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~fessler/misc/funny/gore,net.txt

As far back as the 1970s Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed
telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the
improvement of our educational system.  He was the first elected official
to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact
than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship. Though easily
forgotten, now, at the time this was an unproven and controversial
concept.  Our work on the Internet started in 1973 and was based on even
earlier work that took place in the mid-late 1960s. But the Internet, as
we know it today, was not deployed until 1983. When the Internet was still
in the early stages of its deployment, Congressman Gore provided
intellectual leadership by helping create the vision of the potential
benefits of high speed computing and communication.  As an example, he
sponsored hearings on how advanced technologies might be put to use in
areas like coordinating the response of government agencies to natural
disasters and other crises.

http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html

But, for most people it is a funny joke...i suppose, if you are ignorant on the subject.

And a nother pile of crap from the racebaitingpovertypiomp. Algore did not do anything to “create the intenet”, that is a pile of sannitized. He was a Senator, who spent his time stealing tax dollars and screwing up everything he touched. Repeated the lie that he has ever done anything constructive or positive ever is leftard propaganda.

Go do some more meth, sanni. Or are you all out in this early AM hour, liar?

And a nother pile of crap from the racebaitingpovertypiomp. Algore did not do anything to “create the intenet”, that is a pile of sannitized. ... Repeated the lie that he has ever done anything constructive or positive ever is leftard propaganda.

I dont think I have ever seen a more desperate example of someone who clinged so strongly to fantasy.

Can you provide one bit of evidence from anyone credible that Gore did not do “anything” to help create the internet?

I will be looking forward to your lack of evidence to support your fantastic lie.

Show us what he did. Show us the code he wrote, the systems he developed. We are waiting.

That is it.  I am done with this site.  I am dead certain 80% of your pool is fucking retarded Ron.

Seriously, dude.....that is just fucking complete lunacy.  Go back to school, you lack basic reading comprehension skills.  It explains a lot though.
Hannitized on January 7, 2008 at 08:04 pm

Were you lying then, or are you lying now?

It would be funny if it weren’t so typical. The thread is about the extent to which global warming alarmist Al Gore is culpable for a worldwide food shortage. Rob adds a funny throwaway line about the Internet and what does Hannitized focus on? Riiiiight! Al Gore’s role in inventing the Internet is irrelevant to the discussion.

“irrelevant to the discussion”: Hannie’s biography in four words!

Hannitized:

I hate to engage you in these things because it’s generally pointless. So I won’t. I have a suggestion instead:

Instead of sniping at other people’s posts and comments - why don’t you write some pieces of your own? The Reader’s Blog offers a forum that most other sites don’t - the opportunity to put yourself and your beliefs out there. Othere libs here do it. Even Sparkie, who is as far left as you are, puts himself out there from time to time and even makes a good point now and then.

I realize that fluidity of thought isn’t your strong point but give it a shot. You may have posted a piece or two already, but from the sheer volume of your comments I’d say that you could do more.

Come on, Sniper....show yourself.

Hey!

Here is another pile of crap from the actual father of the internets!

Vinton G. Cerf, a senior vice president at MCI Worldcom and the person most often called “the father of the Internet” for his part in designing the network’s common computer language, said in an e-mail interview yesterday, “I think it is very fair to say that the Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the vice president in his current role and in his earlier role as senator.”

Don’t look now nutters, but your standing in it.

Trying hard to not Shamelessly Self Promote, OK, just a little shame.  I just posted a hopefully humorous piece on this and hope you enjoy it.

UH-OH!

More crap!

“In all fairness, it’s something Gore had worked on a long time. Gore is not the Father of the Internet, but in all fairness Gore is the person who, in the Congress, most systematically worked to make sure that we got to an Internet, and the truth is ... I worked with him starting in 1978 when I got there, we were both part of a ‘futures group.’ The fact is, in the Clinton administration the world we had talked about in the ‘80s began to actually happen. You can see it in your own life, between the Internet, the computer, the cellphone.”

The Newtie