From: Lucianne.com. [First, the original article..........note that this is the ultimate spin, or proof you can spin an outright lie. Seems the liberals of the current admin/WH have clearly brought the science of spin to a new high as an art form...clearly THE state-of-the-art masters at it. Sorry, I just gotta ask how any responsible news publication can actually publish this crap?" --MS] ------------------------------------------------ Gore Invented Internet? Hey, He's Got a Case by Lars Erik Nelson http://www.nydailynews.com/2000-05-05/News_and_Views/Opinion/a-65600.asp Miffed at the latest attack on him from Vice President Gore, George W. Bush accuses the vice president of stretching the truth. "He's the man who said he invented the Internet," Bush gibed, echoing a common joke at Gore's expense. Now let's kill the joke. A) Gore did not claim to have invented the Internet. In an interview with Wolf Blitzer in March 1999, Gore said: "During my service in the U.S. Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." B) This claim is perfectly true. In March 1986, when computers were still something found mostly in laboratories, Gore sponsored the Supercomputer Network Study Act to link the nation's supercomputers into a single system. This was his vision: "Libraries, rural schools, minority institutions and vocational education programs will have access to the same national resources — databases, supercomputers, accelerators — as more affluent and better-known institutions." Three years later, after noticing that France was making strides with its Minitel home-computer network, Gore introduced the National High Performance Computer Technology Act. One of its aims was to "establish a high-capacity national research and education computer network." His bill directed that the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which had created the forerunner of the Internet, "shall ensure that unclassified computer technology research is readily available to American industry." In testimony to a House committee, Gore said: "I genuinely believe that the creation of this nationwide network ... will create an environment where work stations are common in homes and even small businesses." At the time, even computer professionals were jeering at the notion of personal computers. They would be a waste of money, costly machines for balancing checkbooks or storing recipes. Gore saw them as terminals in a future national network of knowledge. One of Gore's Republican colleagues, Sen. Slade Gorton of Washington, credited him at the time for introducing a bill that would "create [note that word] a high-capacity national research and education network to link up supercomputers and databases around the country." In 1991, Gore reintroduced his bill to provide funding for development of a national computer network. He said: "Today, most students using computer networks are studying science and engineering, but there are more and more applications in other fields, too. Economists, historians and literature majors are all discovering the power of networking. In the future, I think we will see computers and networks used to teach every subject from kindergarten through grade school." Gore found a supporter: President George Bush, father of George W. He signed Gore's bill on Dec. 9, 1991, predicting that this new technology "offers the potential to transform radically the way in which all Americans will work, learn and communicate in the future. It holds the promise of changing society as much as the other great inventions of the 20th century, including the telephone, air travel, radio and TV." Does this documented record justify Gore's claim that during his service in Congress he took the initiative in creating the Internet as we know it today? Seems to me, he has a pretty good case. But don't expect Bush, who urges Gore to "stick to the facts," to drop his sneer. He knows that a lie is a powerful political weapon that can survive forever. His own father never managed to kill the myth that he had no idea what a supermarket checkout computer was. By the way, when he signed Gore's Internet bill, President Bush took credit for it himself. He said he had proposed it in his 1992 budget. Original Publication Date: 05/05/2000 ------------------------------------------------------------- Now, a response from one of the readers............... What utter nonsense. The Supercomputer Study Act provided money to link together SUPERCOMPUTERS (that cost tens of millions of dollars each) at universities and government research labs. The Internet was invented in the late 1960s. The real reason that the Internet took off is that: A.) Tim Berners-Lee (a research at the European Lab for Partical Physics) invented the World Wide Web (what you are using on l.com) B.) Mark Andreesen (a college student) created the Mosaic graphical web browser (which later became Netscape) C.) SPRY (a private company) started selling Mosaic at Egghead software stores D.) Andreeson got money from the Jim Clark (who ran Silicon Graphics) to start Netscape E.) Microsoft, Sun, and many other companies jumped on the WEB bandwagon in full force. Gore's "vision" for the computer networks was to hook up a few hundred multi-million super computers in government and public university research labs. The Internet exploded because visionaries in the market decided that hooking up hundreds of millions of cheap PCs together could change the world. [The Internet was "developed" by the military as a weapons enhancement, and THEN brought to the masses as a tool to be used against us, i.e., profiling, monitoring, surveiling, etc. To the great consternation of those that saw this potential, and that "developed" the Net in this regard, the Net clearly has a life of it's own now, a seemingly UNCONTROLABLE life of it's own, and, IF we don't let it go as we have our US constition, etc., it may indeed be our salvation, i.e., a tool of and by the global masses to at least hamper the motives of "The Evilarchy"/Global Banksters. --MS] ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Mike Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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