Re: Algore finally won something

In article
<kurtullman-F0F162.12375012102007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Kurt
Ullman <kurtullman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <121020070813206337%skipspamless@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Skipper <skipspamless@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Wired seems to disagree with you in the article cited:


"But it's also difficult to argue with a straight face that the Internet
we know today would not exist if Gore had decided to practice the piano
instead of politics.

By the time Gore took notice of the Net around 1987, the basics were
already in place. The key protocol, TCP/IP, was written and the culture
of the Net had blossomed through Usenet and mailing lists, as chronicled
in Eric Raymond's Jargon File. At best, Gore's involvement merely
hastened its development."

I think Gore's a doofus, but he was involved in something
legislatively. He didn't just make up the Internet comment.
.

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