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Al Gore Mentions 'New iPhones' for Next Month

BeauPaul said:
That is a LIE!


The origins of the Internet reach back to research of the 1960s, commissioned by the United States government in collaboration with private commercial interests to build robust, fault-tolerant, and distributed computer networks. The funding of a new U.S. backbone by the National Science Foundation in the 1980s, as well as private funding for other commercial backbones, led to worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies, and the merger of many networks. The commercialization of what was by the 1990s an international network resulted in its popularization and incorporation into virtually every aspect of modern human life. As of 2009, an estimated one-quarter of Earth's population uses the services of the Internet.
The Internet has no centralized governance in either technological implementation or policies for access and usage; each constituent network sets its own standards. Only the overreaching definitions of the two principal name spaces in the Internet, the Internet Protocol address space and the Domain Name System, are directed by a maintainer organization, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The technical underpinning and standardization of the core protocols (IPv4 and IPv6) is an activity of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a non-profit organization of loosely affiliated international participants that anyone may associate with by contributing technical expertise.
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Nobody is denying that the internet has its origin in an army project put together in response to the nuclear threat, eventually implemented as (the research network) arpanet. That is completely besides the point, and does not refute the FACT that Al Gore was indeed instrumental in "creating the internet [as we know it]" (at least on the american side). He spent 3 decades on this, and deserves credit for it.
 
Peace said:
Very true.

I really hated those banner ads I saw in 1970.
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Look up DARPAnet or do some basic research and you will see the Internet has been around a while and when it became commercially viable, that had nothing to do with clinton or gore. You see, the government does not create or legislate job growth, the market does.
 
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Please don't...

Hastings101 said:
From inventing the internet to foreseeing the release of iPhones, what a talented guy!
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...make it so easy for those around you to see your ignorance.

Provide one, just one, documented occurrence of his having said he invented the internet. You can't, because he didn't.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

He did, in fact, co-sponsor the 1988 act that allowed DARPAnet to be expanded to universities in an organized manner, and the 1992 act that allowed commercial traffic to do the same.

Those who say he did otherwise are either incredibly and stubbornly misinformed, or maliciously and purposefully spreading misinformation.

And as a member of the Apple Board since 2003, he might just be aware of when products are in the pipeline.
 
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Bending Pixels said:
Didn't Al Gore say that "Love Story" was about he and Tipper? Oh yeah...they're spitsville....

This must mean that the iPhone 5 won't be out until next year......:D
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No, the author of 'Love Story', who new Al Gore in college said it was 'partly' based on them.
 
Actually, i dig the Gore. The Gore is a cool mo fo. Rock on Gorey. Don't let the global warming deniers rain on your parade. :p
 
Captainobvvious said:
The more I think about it the more I think I am right... When you tell people that the new iPhone is coming out next month do you say "The new iPhone is coming out next month!"

No... I have been telling people "The iPhone's coming out next month"

I am not saying it casts doubt on whether there are two models coming out just that I don't think it confirms it...

However if he was making a contraction and not a plural it could mean there is ONE model coming out OR he is staying tight lipped.
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Without analyzing Gore's speech pattern its hard to say for sure. Im not a native english speaker, but to me the sentence as such looks grammatically incorrect if he is not saying "iphone is..." Could be wrong though :- )
 
outphase said:
Don't let truth get in the way of your anger
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Peace said:
Why not..


Al Gore didn't say "I invented the internet"

He did say " We created the internet".

And if you are old enough you would know the internet as you know it became a reality because of legislation introduced by the Clinton/Gore administration.
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The Internet was well underway when Clinton took office. Al Gore was referring to work while he was in Congress, prior to Clinton's administration. What he said was:

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
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This was in a 1999 interview with Wolf Blitzer (http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000/transcript.gore/index.html). Snopes.com has a good write up on it all.

In context he was describing the differences between him and Bradley. He did sponsor a bill in 1988 that led to the University interconnectivity at drove the Internet forward. Certainly he overstated his role, but he said nothing at all like he invented the Internet.
 
MacDarcy said:
Actually, i dig the Gore. The Gore is a cool mo fo. Rock on Gorey. Don't let the global warming deniers rain on your parade. :p
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He sure is, and his name is an anagram of O'Regal. I mean, thats just winning!

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wovel said:
The Internet was well underway when Clinton took office. Al Gore was referring to work while he was in Congress, prior to Clinton's administration. What he said was:



This was in a 1999 interview with Wolf Blitzer (http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000/transcript.gore/index.html). Snopes.com has a good write up on it all.

In context he was describing the differences between him and Bradley. He did sponsor a bill in 1988 that led to the University interconnectivity at drove the Internet forward. Certainly he overstated his role, but he said nothing at all like he invented the Internet.
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overstated or not, he has been praised by engineers involved in building the foundation of the internet back in the 60's, right? And didnt he win a life time award or something for his work pushing the net forward? Like earlier stated, Gore did way more than most. Give him credit... imagine if all politicians were as forward-looking as him?
 
Salty Pirate said:
Look up DARPAnet or do some basic research and you will see the Internet has been around a while and when it became commercially viable, that had nothing to do with clinton or gore. You see, the government does not create or legislate job growth, the market does.
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Thank you! I was using the internet and e-mail at a large corporation before we ever heard of Al Gore. Albeit it was not as easy to use as today but Al Gore has had nothing to do with that.
 
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This many posts and still no-one makes an 'inconvenient truth' joke about the story? I'm disappointed.
 
Salty Pirate said:
Look up DARPAnet or do some basic research and you will see the Internet has been around a while and when it became commercially viable, that had nothing to do with clinton or gore. You see, the government does not create or legislate job growth, the market does.
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What does job growth have to do with this? Obviously you are a conservative... Even Newt Gingrich has come out in Gore's defense calling him instrumental in the creation of the internet as we know it today.
 
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BeauPaul said:
Thank you! I was using the internet and e-mail at a large corporation before we ever heard of Al Gore. Albeit it was not as easy to use as today but Al Gore has had nothing to do with that.
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You were using email in 1978?

People are so simple minded... Even if there was email to be had in some capacity then it doesn't matter... He isn't saying he INVENTED anything nor was he saying that the internet in some capacity (ARPANET) didn't exist before he came around... He is talking about making the internet a commercial entity that is used by normal people as we know it today... He isn't even saying nor has he ever said HE was the one who did that... He was saying he was a major part or and proponent of it.
 
Salty Pirate said:
Look up DARPAnet or do some basic research and you will see the Internet has been around a while and when it became commercially viable, that had nothing to do with clinton or gore. You see, the government does not create or legislate job growth, the market does.
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Maybe you should look at what Gore actually said and did. The existence of DARPAnet is quite irrelevant. Maybe you should check out Vinton Cerf's opinion of Gore:

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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:43:58 -0400
From: vinton g. cerf <vcerf@MCI.NET>
To: Declan McCullaugh <declan@well.com>, farber@cis.upenn.edu
Cc: rkahn@cnri.reston.va.us
Subject: Al Gore and the Internet

Dave and Declan,

I am taking the liberty of sending to you both a brief
summary of Al Gore's Internet involvement, prepared by
Bob Kahn and me. As you know, there have been a seemingly
unending series of jokes chiding the vice president for
his assertion that he "took the initiative in creating
the Internet."

Bob and I believe that the vice president deserves significant
credit for his early recognition of the importance of what has
become the Internet.

I thought you might find this short summary of sufficient
interest to share it with Politech and the IP lists, respectively.

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Al Gore and the Internet

By Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf
Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development.

No one person or even small group of persons exclusively “invented” the Internet. It is the result of many years of ongoing collaboration among people in government and the university community. But as the two people who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore’s contributions as a Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time.

Last year the Vice President made a straightforward statement on his role. He said: “During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet.” We don’t think, as some people have argued, that Gore intended to claim he “invented” the Internet. Moreover, there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore’s initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving Internet. The fact of the matter is that Gore was talking about and promoting the Internet long before most people were listening. We feel it is timely to offer our perspective.

As far back as the 1970s Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship. Though easily forgotten, now, at the time this was an unproven and controversial concept. Our work on the Internet started in 1973 and was based on even earlier work that took place in the mid-late 1960s. But the Internet, as we know it today, was not deployed until 1983. When the Internet was still in the early stages of its deployment, Congressman Gore provided intellectual leadership by helping create the vision of the potential benefits of high speed computing and communication. As an example, he sponsored hearings on how advanced technologies might be put to use in areas like coordinating the response of government agencies to !
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ral disasters and other crises.

As a Senator in the 1980s Gore urged government agencies to consolidate what at the time were several dozen different and unconnected networks into an “Interagency Network.” Working in a bi-partisan manner with officials in Ronald Reagan and George Bush’s administrations, Gore secured the passage of the High Performance Computing and Communications Act in 1991. This “Gore Act” supported the National Research and Education Network (NREN) initiative that became one of the major vehicles for the spread of the Internet beyond the field of computer science.

As Vice President Gore promoted building the Internet both up and out, as well as releasing the Internet from the control of the government agencies that spawned it. He served as the major administration proponent for continued investment in advanced computing and networking and private sector initiatives such as Net Day. He was and is a strong proponent of extending access to the network to schools and libraries. Today, approximately 95% of our nation’s schools are on the Internet. Gore provided much-needed political support for the speedy privatization of the Internet when the time arrived for it to become a commercially-driven operation.

There are many factors that have contributed to the Internet’s rapid growth since the later 1980s, not the least of which has been political support for its privatization and continued support for research in advanced networking technology. No one in public life has been more intellectually engaged in helping to create the climate for a thriving Internet than the Vice President. Gore has been a clear champion of this effort, both in the councils of government and with the public at large.

The Vice President deserves credit for his early recognition of the value of high speed computing and communication and for his long-term and consistent articulation of the potential value of the Internet to American citizens and industry and, indeed, to the rest of the world.


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This is from http://www.politechbot.com/p-01394.html and is backed up by dozens of interviews.
 
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Pathetic

The forum population seems to have gotten a lot stupider. For all the people that comment on this site to not realize Al Gore is on Apple's Board is mind boggling. No wonder there is so much whining, the board has been taken over by mindless folk who just want to know when iPad 8 is coming out.
 
JRoDDz said:
Created.. Invented.. Same difference. But what does it matter really, because according to Algore we will all be dead due to global warming in a few years anyhow.
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Only if you are blinded by politics. Creating something is helping to bring it in to existence, inventing is coming up with something in your mind. They are not synonyms.
 
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