• takeda@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    No, that’s not what he said. He got a lot of flak for supposedly saying he invented the Internet.

    In reality he never claimed that, he said that when he was a congressman he took initiative in creating the Internet, meaning sponsoring bills that would fund it etc. not actually inventing it.

    Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf actually acknowledged that Gore was first politician that saw Internet’s potential and helped it becoming a reality.