See that word I highlighted? "creating"? Understand what that means? No way, no how, no earthly possibility anything political that Gore did had anything at all to do with "creating" the internet, that he later claimed.
See the seperation?
You understand my point now?
I understand your point, and I largely responded to it back on page one. At which point I'd say it was simply a poor choice of words, and you're going to great lengths to try and wring as much technical inaccuracy as possible from it due to your bias regarding him.
Here we go, from the previously linked Vint Cerf email, for those that might not have read it:
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 natural 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.
So, it appears that his advocacy of the idea of "the internet" (before it was known as such) predates the internet as we know it. No, he doesn't seem to have had much of a hand in the creation of the networks that predated the internet. However, it
does appear that his advocacy of the idea of "the internet" (before it had such a name) in a political capacity might well have played a role, even an important one, in the transformation of those networks into the modern internet.
Or, since you seem hung up on the whole use of the word "create," the
creation of the internet from those networks.
EDIT: Also, what SecDef said. Basically, the
only way I can see coming to the conclusion you've come to regarding his statement is if you needed to do so to satisfy some strong pre-existing bias. Which isn't intellectually honest.
