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RE: Gore: Wireless access to info means power

malenkylizards@... 6th Apr 2009

Right, um, not invented though. He created the
Internet in exactly the same way Eisenhower created
the highway system, which nobody would deny, given
that its full and never used title is the "Dwight D.
Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense
Highways." Did he put on a hard hat and get to mixin'
asphalt at all hours of the day to get our highways we
love so much made? No, don't be silly, but we still
say that it was because of him that they're around.

Similarly, Al Gore seems to have done rather more than
popularize the phrase, if all he did other than
popularize it was to, um, draft the bill that mandated
the so-nicknamed US infrastructure's creation. From
Wikipedia:
"As a Senator, Gore began to craft the High
Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991
(commonly referred to as "The Gore Bill") after
hearing the 1988 report Toward a National Research
Network submitted to Congress by a group chaired by
UCLA professor of computer science, Leonard Kleinrock,
one of the central creators of the ARPANET (the
ARPANET, first deployed by Kleinrock and others in
1969, is the predecessor of the Internet).[50][51][52]
The bill was passed on December 9, 1991 and led to the
National Information Infrastructure (NII) which Gore
referred to as the "information superhighway."[53]"

Now, this was pretty hard to find. I did a Wikipedia
search for Al Gore, then hit Ctrl+F, and typed
"Internet." You may need to take a class or something
to get these techniques under your belt, if you have
difficulty with it.