I was on the Hill as a Congressional Science Fellow in 1977-78, and worked for a rep who shared committee assignments with Al Gore. What Mr. Gore did, during the late '70s, was add a provision to a bill, after talking with DoD sponsored research scientists, to fund development of a means for them to share their work via a computer network. That was the origin of DARPA Net, from which later the Internet was developed. So it is true, in a sense, that what Al Gore did was one of the first steps toward there being an Internet. BTW that was all that was claimed by Mr. Gore and his supporters, not that he "invented" the Internet. The term "invent" was added by Mr. Rove and his people.

¶ posted by Colin | 6:43 AM