Al Gore "invented the Internet"

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Al Gore "invented the Internet"
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Wed, 09-22-2004 - 6:00pm


That Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet has got to be the most

successful flat-out lie since, well, the last one."



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Registered: 03-25-2003
Thu, 09-23-2004 - 12:18am
<> Ooops, you're right, and here I go bumping it back up again, LAST time, I swear. Just wanted to agree with you......ok, now I'll let this thread die....
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Registered: 04-16-2004
Thu, 09-23-2004 - 3:53pm
Al Gore's exact quote was "I took the initiative in the creation of the internet".

If you go to the jibjab website, they have the actual audio of it on the Bush v Gore rap parody.

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Registered: 04-16-2004
Thu, 09-23-2004 - 3:54pm
Hey...his mom did sing the union label song to him when he used to sit on her knee.

Man that woman had strong legs, considering the song wasn't written until Gore was in his late 20's.

LOL....I know...totally irrelevant, but we are talking about Gore on this thread right?

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Registered: 08-21-2004
Thu, 09-23-2004 - 5:29pm

When the Righties have no answer they deflect attention back to Clinton or Gore or even farther back, to the Viet Nam war 35 years ago. Or better yet, blame Hillary (I hesitate to even bring up her name, since she is vilified for no rational reason I could ever figure out).

Donna
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Thu, 09-23-2004 - 5:58pm
I imagine the reason this topic got brought up in the 1st place was that it's the 35th anniversary of the internet.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/living/9731924.htm










Happy Birthday, Internet

A little mouse told us, and we're revealing your age: 35!

By JAMES A. FUSSELL

The Kansas City Star


You're not going to www.believethis, but the Net is 35 years old this month.

OK, not the instant, whiz-bang, download-stuff-from-Timbuktu-in-your-jammies Internet you use today, but rather the beginnings of the fledgling computer network that made it all possible.

The ARPANET.

Yes, in 1969, thanks to Sputnik, the Cold War and even Superman comic books, the world's first computer network took a baby step toward changing the world. Today it's all too easy to take the Net for granted. A few keystrokes here, the push of a button there and you have the globe at your fingertips.

But how did we get here? And how does it all work?

We'll do our best to decode it for you.

What is the Internet?

It's short for “Interconnected Network of Networks.” So it's simply one enormous, global computer network made up of countless smaller networks digitally linked together.

Who invented the Internet?

No one person. Numerous researchers in government and academia developed and refined the technology.

How did it start?

The groundwork was laid during the Cold War.

After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957 the United States established the Advanced Research Projects Agency, or ARPA. The agency united some of the country's brightest minds to develop the country's first successful satellite. Then in the early '60s, seeking a way to ensure stable communications in an unstable age, the researchers turned their attention to computer networking that could transfer data even if power lines were down or equipment disabled.

Where was the first real computer network activated?

At a computer lab at the University of California at Los Angeles.

What happened?

Computer science professor Len Kleinrock and a small group of graduate students conducted a test of a four-node network. Using 900-pound computers encased in gray steel and new technology devised by ARPA, they attempted to link UCLA with computers at the University of Utah, the University of California-Santa Barbara and the Stanford Research Institute. The first attempt involved typing the word “login” to see if the letters would appear on distant monitors.

Kleinrock recounted the history-making moment in various interviews, including one with The Sacramento Bee: “We set up a telephone connection between us and the guys at (Stanford).”

They began to type the word “login” a letter at a time and then asked over the telephone:

“Do you see the L?”

“Yes, we see the L,” came the response.

“Do you see the “O?”

“Yes, we see the “O.”

“Then,” Kleinrock said, “We typed the “G” and the system crashed.

The ARPANET was born.

Subsequent tests were more successful. The network expanded from there.

How does the Internet work?

The full details are too complex to be fully explained here. Suffice it to say that when you connect to the Internet and visit Web sites, you are digitally requesting information from another computer. Data requests and transfers from one machine to another are accomplished through the use of computer protocols, which are simply sets of instructions that tell a computer what to do. All computers on the Internet use a standardized set of instructions known as TCP/IP. Other standardized instructions for your computer help it perform many tasks, including the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, or http, used on the World Wide Web to send information. Even though you may not understand protocols, protocols are the way computers understand each other.

Isn't the World Wide Web the same as the Internet?

No. The Internet is a collection of computers hooked up on a network. The World Wide Web is a subset of the Internet. Specifically, the Web's computers run special software to send information over the Net on demand.

The language these “Web servers” speak is http, invented in 1989 by European physics researcher Tim Berners-Lee.

“So the World Wide Web didn't make the Internet, it made the Internet more useful and interesting,” said Susan Gauch, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Kansas.

What is the most used part of the Internet, and who invented it?

E-mail. A man named Ray Tomlinson developed the first e-mail application for the ARPANET in 1971.

When was the first emoticon (those typed punctuations to indicate tone or emotion) invented?

The first one, invented in 1979, looked like this:

-)

It was known as “Tongue-in-Cheek.” The more popular smiley face —

:-)

— first showed up in e-mail in 1982.

What is a browser?

Internet Explorer or Netscape, for example. A browser is software that can send an information request on the World Wide Web and then display a Web page containing that information

What happens when you enter a Web site address on your computer and push the enter key?

A piece of software essentially “wakes up” and electronically sends your message across the Internet to the location you have typed in. That computer, known as a Web server, finds the information you digitally requested and sends it back.

Did Al Gore really say he invented the Internet?

No, but that's the impression he left with many people. In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer during the 2000 presidential race Gore said:

“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.”

Gore was not saying he invented anything. His point was that, as a congressman, he took the lead in supporting the research that helped create and refine what became the Internet.

Vinton Cerf, one of Kleinrock's graduate students at UCLA, who has been called the Father of the Internet (thanks to his invention of the TCP Internet protocol), said at the time:

“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.”

Is there anything faster than the current Internet most people know?

Yes. It's called Internet 2, and it features speeds 100 times faster than most home broadband connections. Internet 2 is now limited to select universities, corporations and institutions. But if past innovations are any indication, its technology may become part of the main Internet.



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Registered: 02-23-2004
Thu, 09-23-2004 - 7:40pm

Man that woman had strong legs, considering the song wasn't written until Gore was in his late 20's.

LOL....I know...totally irrelevant, but we are talking about Gore on this thread right?>

That's a story that's always worth repeating, LOL!

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Registered: 09-02-2004
Thu, 09-23-2004 - 8:56pm
Actually Al Gore was on a commitee that help to fund the research on the internet, Mr Gore never said he invented the internet, he said he help to pave they way for science with funding and just plain ol support. This was in a book on Al Gore, also this was addressed by MSNBC in the 2000 election, you can look it up at the MSNBC site.Happy anniv to the internet!!!! what a change it made for us all!!!!!!
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Registered: 08-05-2004
Thu, 09-23-2004 - 9:01pm
I agree that it has made such a change. People find their mates online, research and of course can get all the latest news instead of watching t.v. XOXO.
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Registered: 05-27-2003
Thu, 09-23-2004 - 9:05pm
And this has what to do with anything important????????????????????????????

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