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On May 12, 10:22 pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote:
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It would appear, then, that Al Gore basically said the truth about his
role in creating the Internet?

Am I missing anything?

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The main thing you are missing is that the internet started before Al
Gore was in Congress.

No, Gore was elected to Congress in 1976.

And that his votes on expanding the internet
were matched by a majority of Congress. I personally think the
internet would have expanded at the same rate regardless of what one
senator did or did not do. Google " internet history ".

My best guess is that I started using the internet about 1984 or 1985.

Then you were either a military or a university user. The first commercial
mail network on the Internet was MCI Mail, in 1988.

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Ed Huntress

Yes, I know when Gore was first elected to Congress. Do you know when
the internet started?

I depends on how you define it. The word "internet" was bandied about for
over a decade, and there were networks of various types. I was active on
CompuServe since 1983. But, again, the first commercial access to this son
of ARPANET was MCI Mail in 1988, and CompuServe at about the same time.
Before that, to experiment or use the network, you needed access through the
military or certain universities, or you had to be involved with the
hardware or software at the research level.

As for Al Gore's role, I provided one link to the Internet Society (ISOC)
that documents it with various references.

I was a friend of Cynbe. So had access through his computer.

Dan