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Originally posted by teraberry
He already invented the internet...
does he really need to be president too?
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Geeze Louise! He never said that! He mentioned that as a Senator he took the initiative in increasing funding for NSFNet, which became the High Performance Computing Act of 1991. The result was the Internet AS WE KNOW IT TODAY.
According to Vincent Cerf, a senior vice president with MCI Worldcom who's been called the Father of the Internet, "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."The inventor of the Mosaic Browser, Marc Andreesen, credits Gore with making his work possible. He received a federal grant through Gore's High Performance Computing Act. The University of Pennsylvania's Dave Ferber says that without Gore the Internet "would not be where it is today." Joseph E. Traub, a computer science professor at Columbia University, claims that Gore "was perhaps the first political leader to grasp the importance of networking the country."
Kathryn