Did Al Gore invent the internet?

[Dave Slayer]

Did Al Gore invent the internet? I have heard that he did, is it true?

 

[Vic C.]

Here's the real deal; he invented the phrase, "Internet superhighway". Things got twisted and somehow it became, "He invented the internet". The issue is, he did nothing to correct the misquote. :gah

 

[GojuBrian]

surprise surprise...............

 

[Vic C.]

I forgot to add this:

http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_summary.htm

 

[Blazin Bones]

Thank You Al Gore! ...

 

[julie89]

Of course Al Gore invented the internet. He also invented Brussels sprouts and the microwave oven.

 

[jasoncran]

Of course Al Gore invented the internet. He also invented Brussels sprouts and the microwave oven.

al gore is the saviour of gaia(mother earth) who are we to doubt him.

 

[Blazin Bones]

At the very least we can gie him credit for this Famous One-Liner... "I Invented the Internet."

 

[Vic C.]

I won't give him credit for something he never said in the first place. I think it's wrong that he never corrected the misquote.

My memory has failed me though, LOL! Here's what happened:

It is true, though, that Gore was popularizing the term "information superhighway" in the early 1990s (although he did not, as is often claimed by others, coin the phrase himself) when few people outside academia or the computer/defense industries had heard of the Internet, and he sponsored the 1988 National High-Performance Computer Act (which established a national computing plan and helped link universities and libraries via a shared network) and cosponsored the Information Infrastructure and Technology Act of 1992 (which opened the Internet to commercial traffic).

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

I knew it was something like that! :D

 

[Armor of God]

Al Gore many not have invented the internet but he is one of the "global warming" inventors. :D

 

[handy]

If Al Gore and Chuck Norris were ever to come into conflict with one another, the entire universe would explode.

 

[Vic C.]

:biglol

:toofunny

 

[Cornelius]

2007-02-23: No one person invented the Internet as we know it today. However, certain major figures contributed major breakthroughs:

Leonard Kleinrock was the first to publish a paper about the idea of packet switching, which is essential to the Internet. He did so in 1961. Packet switching is the idea that packets of data can be "routed" from one place to another based on address information carried in the data, much like the address on a letter. Packet switching replaces the older concept of "circuit switching," in which an actual electrical circuit is established all the way from the source to the destination. Circuit switching was the idea behind traditional telephone exchanges.
Why Packet Switching Matters

The big advantage of packet switching: a physical connection can carry packets for many different purposes at the same time, depending on how heavy the traffic is. This is much more efficient than tying up a physical connection for the entire duration of a phone call. And for services like the World Wide Web, where traffic comes in bursts, it's essential.

What if Google needed a separate modem and phone line to talk to every user, like an old-fashioned BBS (Bulletin Board System)? Handling millions of users would be prohibitively expensive.

With packet switching, packets destined for thousands or millions of users can share a single physical connection to the Internet.
J.C.R. Licklider was the first to describe an Internet-like worldwide network of computers, in 1962. He called it the "Galactic Network."

Larry G. Roberts created the first functioning long-distance computer networks in 1965 and designed the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the seed from which the modern Internet grew, in 1966.

Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) which moves data on the modern Internet, in 1972 and 1973. If any two people "invented the Internet," it was Kahn and Cerf - but they have publicly stated that "no one person or group of people" invented the Internet.

Radia Perlman invented the spanning tree algorithm in the 1980s. Her spanning tree algorithm allows efficient bridging between separate networks. Without a good bridging solution, large-scale networks like the Internet would be impractical.

http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/inventednet.html

 

[John]

I wonder if he found the ManBearPig yet?

 

[Captain Sarcastic]

Half man, half bear, half pig...

I'm super-serial!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Armor of God]

If Al Gore and Chuck Norris were ever to come into conflict with one another, the entire universe would explode.

There would be two hits. Norris hitting Gore and Gore hitting the floor.

Norris' kung fu is much greater than Gore. :nod

 

[Cornelius]

Norris' kung fu is much greater than Gore. :nod

Norris IS the kung in fu.

 

[jasoncran]

If Al Gore and Chuck Norris were ever to come into conflict with one another, the entire universe would explode.

No al gore would run screaming like a little girl. Heeeeeeeeeeeelppppppppppppppppppp Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. :rolling :biglol :fullauto

sorry couldnt help it.

Jason

 

[John]

Shhhh Norris's super powerful ears can hear us :dead :o

Even Google is afraid of him. Everybody go to Goggle and type in "Find Chuck Norris" and click "I'm feeling lucky"

;)

 

[Nick]

Shhhh Norris's super powerful ears can hear us :dead :o

Even Google is afraid of him. Everybody go to Goggle and type in "Find Chuck Norris" and click "I'm feeling lucky"

;)

:biglol