Did Al Gore Invent The Internet?
This silly question is raised quite often, so we thought we’d address it here real quick.
The comment in question was raised way back in March of 1999 when Al visited Wolf Blitzer on CNN. Wolf was asking Al what differentiated himself from Democratic challenger, Bill Bradley of New Jersey. His response was, quote:
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection…
Now, clearly, Al wasn’t posturing himself as the creator of the internet here. He was simply mentioning, from a legislative and governmental sense, he helped nurture the technology that became the internet today.
Internet or not, we all value Al’s work. And the world’s a better place cause he’s here : )
Lu Bonebright said,
April 17, 2008 @ 10:07 pm
Attention Al Gore:
If we as a nation would dry our clothes outside one day a month can you imagine all the energy we would save.
Michael Drenski said,
April 28, 2008 @ 12:38 am
Please, contact Al Gore and ask him what part of the world he is living-in. I would like to move where he resides, so I could enjoy the warmth of this so-called global warming. I am tired of the cold weather in the great state of Wisconsin. Please, tell Al Gore I want to be his neighbor and his best friend. Maybe he can teach me how to be the greatest con-man. I would like to make millions of dollars, conning people in believing something that isn’t true… just like global warming. Anyone that believes in the global warming b.s., needs to stop taking their medication and look at the world through clear glasses and not the rose color glasses. Hey, Al give-up the con and go out and get a real job.
ctr said,
May 6, 2008 @ 8:10 pm
i dont like al gore
dave said,
May 8, 2008 @ 1:41 pm
Just who actualy gets the cash for carbon credits ?
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William Hill said,
June 21, 2008 @ 10:37 pm
I wish I had gotten the idea to con everyone into beleiving this bull and then make millions giving speaches about it. On a second thought I couldn’t live with my self.
I agree with Mr. Drenski a previous comentator except I wouldn’t want to be his neighbor. I couldn’t stomach it.
james monsul said,
July 21, 2008 @ 5:51 pm
mr. vice president,
i listened to your discussion on “meet the press” sun. 7/20/08 and was interested in your comment that the future of our energy needs will be electricity. i am a conservative republican and came to that conclusion in 1973 when i started my business 1 month before the first oil embargo. i attended many seminars that year only to learn that, at the 1973 use rate, there was only up to 300 years of resources of fossil fuels available to americans unless more were to be found. of course, more resources have been found but consumption has also gone up. so, in 1973 i came to the conclusion that our future electricity needs will come, not from fossil fuels, but from renewable sources. to that end i sent a letter to the solar research institute in colarado. i suggested that we install solar collection panels ( or maybe today photovoltaics ) in the median of the national highway system. the highway ribbon is a minium of 25,000 miles and just this could produce enough electricity to create substations every 25 miles or so to take care of much of our needs. i also sent a letter to the natural gas institute in chicago suggesting that they look into water as our home heating resource. my idea was to convert the home water connection by electrolysis, using home solar collectors for the electricity, into hydrogen & oxygen. the hydrogen would run the furnace and the by product would be water. this system would have a battery back-up system that would run the electrolysis system when the solar collectors could not function. of course no one ever responded to my ideas. today, however these ideas are practical. technology has improved over the last 35 years that these are do able. i don’t agree with some of your basic premises on globale warming. we do agree that the future of energy is electricity. electricity has a limited life span when we talk of fossil fuels. i agree that we need to consider renewable fuels. when john kennedy said put a man on the moon in 10 years our nation did it. if we say put solar collectors in the freeway system in 10 years we can do it. maybe when history looks back on what you and i are talking about it will be labeled the “hydro-solar age”. please let me know what you think.
Uh said,
December 2, 2008 @ 2:39 pm
Michael Drenski, what are you on about? How would wearing “rose colored” glasses make one conclude things were sub-par and likely for the worse? LOL … do you even understand that metaphor?
It’s not Al Gore’s fault that you’re the type who approaches theories and research from the perspective of someone that “believes in” things, as if your personal gut instinct is a reliable guiding light in every field of endeavour, vs. weighing evidence past the current ambient temperature in your own backyard.