On Sunday 19 November 2006 10:54, Ken Jennings wrote: > > http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp > > Whoever wrote that page is just engaging in left wing spin to split hairs > and make Gore look smart. <snipped a bunch of lame regurgitated mythical right wing spin>
Below are facts you can't dispute, Ken, without looking biased and uninformed: * Gore didn't "coin" the term "information superhighway" but he *did* start using it in his speeches and writings in the early 1990s. As the author at snopes put it "... when few people outside academia or the computer/defense industries had heard of the Internet." * "[Gore] ... sponsored [in legislation-speak, "sponsored"="wrote" or "cowrote" meaning at least "helped create"] the 1988 National High-Performance Computer Act (which established a national computing plan and helped link universities and libraries via a shared network)..." * "[Gore] ... cosponsored [again, at least "helped create"] the Information Infrastructure and Technology Act of 1992 (which opened the Internet to commercial traffic)." And I remember these things. I worked in the industry in Silicon Valley between 1987 and 2000, mostly marketing RISC/UNIX and TCP/IP products to government, defense industry (R&D) and university clients. Can the truth (and the misinformation you've regurgitated) be any clearer? Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
