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Originally Posted by T-Rock
I thought Al Gore invented the internet 
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I understand your confusion. That sometimes happens when you insist on believing something ONLY because you like to hear it and say it over and over and over again.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
"he was not claiming that he invented the Internet (in the sense oh having designed or implimented it) but that he was responsible in a legislative sense foro fostering the development of technology that we now know as the internet. . . .
Gore never used the word "invent" and the transcripts are clear and available. The legeslative record is equally clear.
Similiarly, President Eisenhower is regared as the
creator of the Interstate Highway system. Having slogged Armies across Europe on crappy roads he was amazed when he reached the German autobahns. But no one teases that he was drawing lines on a map, blasting tunnels or laying asphalt. 'Create' and 'invent' are different word because they mean different things.