His only problem was in not finishing the statement with "as we know it today".
Which would have been really ******* stupid since he lobbied for funding for Archie and Veronica search engines that we obsolete by the time Congress funded them. But hey, the key is to throw money at it.
Really, before Gore the internet wasn't really the internet at all.
ROFL
It was a government sponsored research network with no commercial aspect to it at all.
Oh, and what commercial aspect did Gore add? All those Usenet boards rivaled Amazon, did they sparky?
Lol, you sycophants and the stupid shit you post.
We can thank him and his allies in Congress for that. The real inventors of the internet say the same, BTW.
Vint Cerf:
Ohh, Vint Cerf, CEO of WorldCom who was begging for a bailout and hoping that criminal charges weren't coming down the line...
Damn, if we can't trust him, who CAN we trust....
Say, what did Bob Metcalf - you know, the guy who created Ethernet, that the Internet runs on, have to say about Gores foolish boast? Oh but then, Metcalf isn't a partisan hack like Cerf, so that doesn't count.
Here are some actual facts;
I first used the internet in 1979. It wasn't real impressive, and needed portals to add content. Genie, The Source, and Compuserve were the most popular. I ran a WildCat BBS in the 80's. These were a booming space where Doors create a coast to coast network independent from any Verizon or AT&T backbone (The real owners of the Internet, then and now) It was Tim Berners Lee who changed the internet by promoting HTML and offering a graphical experience. The first VIABLE commercial site was Amazon, with Gore had absolutely zilch to do with.