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Gotrek 43 points ago +43 / -0

To be fair he didn't invent the internet. Just the World Wide Web. WWW and it's protocols and languages piggy back on the "former" military network called the internet.

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ravonaf 40 points ago +42 / -2

I'm pretty sure that Al Gore invented the internet.

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Pukeahontas 6 points ago +8 / -2

Al gore invented climate bs, he also funded and passed laws that helped the internet to grow

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ravonaf 19 points ago +19 / -0

He also claimed to have created the internet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IejjnZYvMF8

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Pukeahontas 10 points ago +11 / -1

Lol. Typical liberal lie I guess. Maybe 10 years later Pelosi will say she saved the Capitol.

He passed funding laws for research, which were important too but that doesnt make him a creator of the internet. The comments on the youtube video too have more insight

This is absolutely not accurate at all. He didn't take the initiative in creating the Internet. He may have sponsored legislation that increased funding for it but he had nothing to do with its creation or initial expansion.

Cerf and Kahn never say that without Gore the Internet would not have been commercialized much less do so adamantly. Without Paul Mockapetris inventing DNS and Tim Berners-Lee inventing HTML and the first browser their would be no commercial Internet even remotely as it exists today. Throw in BGP V4 also since without it we couldn't route traffic between this large a collection of connected devices worldwide. Al Gore had zero to do with any of that. Sorry for the inconvenient truth.

(should be HTTP and not HTML)

The person in OP is Tim Berners Lee - these guys were the actual engineers that invented the internet. Not a dynast politician from the DC swamp that Al Gore was

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suckmycorona 13 points ago +14 / -1

DOD built it.

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Tcrlaf1 11 points ago +11 / -0

Which was originally called "BARADA", (Basic Aerospace Research and Design Algorythm). As in "Klaatu Barada Nikto"...... Never let it be said that the old school NASA scientists did not have a sense of humor

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repeal230 6 points ago +6 / -0

Nickle!

Necktie!

Definitely and N word!

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Bogey 4 points ago +4 / -0

I saw a bacroynym designed to make a geeky Star Trek reference once buried in a command line interface.

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BlightBane 6 points ago +6 / -0

Wasn't it arpanet or something similar?