How old are you?

[Tyrone Bigguns]

I took the initiative in creating the internet

Read that again. Your own quote.

What am i suppose to be getting...sub in "took the initiative in bringing into existence" the internet.

Simple enough for you.

If President Eisenhower had said in the mid-1960s that he, while president, "created" the Interstate Highway System, we would not have seen dozens and dozens editorials lampooning him for claiming he "invented" the concept of highways or implying that he personally went out and dug ditches across the country to help build the roadway. Everyone would have understood that Ike meant he was a driving force behind the legislation that created the highway system, and this was the very same concept Al Gore was expressing about himself with his Internet statement.


P.S. You might not know the difference, but i guarantee gore was aware of the difference tween the internet and arpanet.

P.P.S. don't let your opinion of me blind you...you are only going to look more stupid.

[Jimx29]

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[pbmax]

At the risk of getting this thread moved, the quote used to lampoon Gore is "invent". As in "When Al Gore invented the internet...."

What he said was actually quite different in meaning. The Senate and House had to act to allow sale and access of this network for private use. They created a network that had not existed before. Even Gingrich acknowledged this at the time, and gave credit to Gore.

Gore's inability to find a way to communicate this quite remarkable achievement with clarity explains much of his failure as a candidate for President.

None of this will ever change the legend, just like other quotes mis-attributed to people simply refuse to disappear. But it doesn't make it a fact.

I took the initiative in creating the internet

Read that again. Your own quote.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

At the risk of getting this thread moved, the quote used to lampoon Gore is "invent". As in "When Al Gore invented the internet...."

What he said was actually quite different in meaning. The Senate and House had to act to allow sale and access of this network for private use. They created a network that had not existed before. Even Gingrich acknowledged this at the time, and gave credit to Gore.

Gore's inability to find a way to communicate this quite remarkable achievement with clarity explains much of his failure as a candidate for President.

None of this will ever change the legend, just like other quotes mis-attributed to people simply refuse to disappear. But it doesn't make it a fact.

I took the initiative in creating the internet

Read that again. Your own quote.

Pretty much what i said...minus the gore and clarity part..which, i think is/was pretty well established.

Create and invent are two distinct words. Only an idiot or a smart political operative would confuse the two.

[mraynrand]

Hex may be for dorks..but, when you were still sucking your mom's teat some of us had to know it to create the web.

Wow. Ty created the web. Probably working directly with Al Gore. Tell us Ty, are ya in on the ground floor of The Grid, too?

I would try to explain the difference between the web and the internet, but i don't think you are capable.

P.S. No matter how many times the right repeats the canard, that isn't what gore said. Nor did he say anything that could be construed as that.

"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, improvements in our educational system."

The terms "create" and "invent" have have distinctly different meanings - the former is used in the sense of "to bring about" or "to bring into existence" while the latter is generally used to signify the first instance of someone's thinking up or implementing an idea.

Or should we just lampoon our current president when he "creates" new jobs. Surely he must mean he "invented" those jobs.

But, i'm sure this is more "nuance."

A little sensitive, much? Toss a cheap shot and get a novel. So when are you going to create the Grid, Ty?

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Again, if you understood the difference tween the web and the internet..you wouldn't make a stupid joke about the grid.

[Zool]

Or he likes poking the angry bear to see if it will chase its own tail.

[MJZiggy]

*sigh* It was just a cute, simple little thread about everyone's age...

[pbmax]

You can delete my diversion, it really belongs somewhere else. Just couldn't resist.