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- inactive, on 04/26/2008, -8/+150Comments about Al Gore End at this Line
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - brianbb98, on 04/26/2008, -9/+133Here come 600 comments about Al Gore inventing the internet....
- inactive, on 04/26/2008, -5/+89Pretty sure no matter how much the looks change. It will still be primarily be used for masturbation.
- CaptainShaun, on 04/26/2008, -3/+83Anybody else think he looks a lot like the Architect from the Matrix series?
- Farik, on 04/26/2008, -10/+68"Al Gore had seen what happened with the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956, which his father introduced as a military bill. It was very powerful. Housing went up, suburban boom happened, everybody became mobile. Al was attuned to the power of networking much more than any of his elective colleagues. His initiatives led directly to the commercialization of the Internet. So he really does deserve credit."
It's great seeing the father of the Interwebs give credit to Al Gore. - diggMeDOWNx, on 04/26/2008, -7/+62Thanks to this man i can fap to SUV Driving soccer mom double horse penetration on sofa videos all day
- ShootTheCore, on 04/26/2008, -3/+58Is he clever enough to capitalize random words too?
- scy1192, on 04/26/2008, -1/+54bury all who defy
- inactive, on 04/26/2008, -7/+46I was jacking off while I typed that, that's why I used Be twicye. opps spelling error. Still touching my dick, sorry.
- CaptainShaun, on 04/26/2008, -2/+31"There was a first "Oh, no!" moment. That was the first time I saw spam pop up. It could have been as early as '79. A digital-equipment corporation sent a note around announcing a job opening, and we all blew up, saying, This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!"
See? The internets ARE serious business! - mriegger, on 04/26/2008, -5/+33"Al Gore had seen what happened with the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956, which his father introduced as a military bill. It was very powerful. Housing went up, suburban boom happened, everybody became mobile. Al was attuned to the power of networking much more than any of his elective colleagues. His initiatives led directly to the commercialization of the Internet. So he really does deserve credit."
From that article that we are all commenting on - inactive, on 04/26/2008, -0/+28Think the Wachowskis did that on purpose?
- archstant0n, on 04/26/2008, -3/+26RTFAP. The P is for "please". No need to be rude, I say.
- baugier, on 04/26/2008, -12/+34I appreciate Vint CERF since I met Him in AUTRANS (France) He Is A Very Clever Man
- CaptainShaun, on 04/26/2008, -0/+21I'm sure they did. If not, neat coincidence.
- secleinteer, on 04/26/2008, -0/+18Yeah - big difference. TBL invented the WWW, which is a subset of the the internet, which Vint Cerf invented through his creation of TCP/IP.
- treed, on 04/26/2008, -1/+18He invented the web.
- Farik, on 04/26/2008, -2/+17I have no clue what your point is, but the point Cerf is making is that Al Gore spread the Internet to the masses due to commercialization which is diametrically opposite to privatization.
- MiddleOfNowhere, on 04/26/2008, -1/+16Oh, the Humanity.
At least you managed to read an article (or part of it) - kudos for that, but as it seems that's pretty much where it ends.
You have no clue, do you? You do not know a ***** little bit about the medium you are using, and you have no concept of its origins, technical foundations and cultural implications - right?
And you are proud of your ignorance - right?
Because if you weren't, you would not have informed one of the world's most-read sites about your ignorance, but tried to learn something instead in the 15 seconds it took you to type this nonsense.
You might have gone to Wikipedia and typed "Internet" into the search field, maybe jumped to the "History" section of that long, long article if all the technical stuff was too much for you.
And if you had done so, you might have learned about DARPA, about protocols, about infrastructure vs. applications, about the amazing complexity of it all. It's not *all* terribly exciting, but it would have given you some context.
But no - why bother? Why not type something into a digg comment field about how Vincent Cerf should not be called the creator of the Internet (?!), "because he didn't create most of the stuff that has spawned from the original web browser..."
This is ignorance on a level that would put even the typical YouTube/Myspace Comment section to shame. It is like walking into a library and shouting at the top of your lungs: "Yo, what is it 'bout all these books?!"
But as long as you're happy with your level of knowledge about the world - hey, why bother? - Rotzooi, on 04/26/2008, -4/+19You didn't read the article, did you?
- scy1192, on 04/26/2008, -8/+22buried. stupid flash pop-ups block their own content. close button doesn't even work.
- Torley, on 04/26/2008, -1/+15It cracked me up that he said "Reproducing isn't nearly as much fun in Second Life." On the other hand, I'm not sure why he said: "Will we shoot virtually at each other over the Internet? Probably not." There's plenty of that happening in Second Life!
- Wakuko, on 04/26/2008, -1/+14And thanks to this man we also have goatse and two girls and one cup.
- MiddleOfNowhere, on 04/26/2008, -1/+14Oh, another one. Do you people get paid for publicly shooting yourselves in the foot?
This is like claiming that Peter Jackson wrote "The Lord of the Rings". No, more like Frodo.
Oh well, why bother. Yeah. Tim Berners-Lee invented the Internet. E-Mail was invented by AOL. The Web is that blue "e" on your desktop. It's all right. - Malacandra95, on 04/26/2008, -6/+19Thank you for that. Al Gore has been the subject of countless, countless jokes about a claim that he never personally made, and which was ascribed to him for the express purpose of making him an object of ridicule. It's only fair to set the record straight.
- Graeleight, on 04/26/2008, -0/+12The World Wide Web is not the Internet
- Wakuko, on 04/26/2008, -3/+14I'll copy and save that line for later. I know I'll find a place to use that again.
- boredrph, on 04/26/2008, -3/+14I prefer brazillian fart porn
- codaofchoice, on 04/27/2008, -1/+11Does anyone else find it awesome that the man who invented the internet played World of Warcraft?
If you invented the internet, should you technically get free access to EVERYTHING? It's like the ultimate VIP pass. - Torley, on 04/26/2008, -0/+10Shades of how they made Agent Smith's delivery sound like Carl Sagan.
- paulmer2003, on 04/26/2008, -0/+10Didn't have a problem personally. Perhaps you should use adblock+noscript ;)
- feliks2, on 04/26/2008, -0/+9That's a lot of CompactDiscs in the mail from the 90's.
- RajDhillon, on 04/26/2008, -6/+15I have 10million free hours of AOL. Think that'll last me until 2050?
- NightVortez, on 04/26/2008, -1/+9It'll have a billion more ads?
- vertexoflife, on 04/26/2008, -1/+9He's talking about war between countries.
- Swift2, on 04/26/2008, -1/+9I think he's been taught that Al Gore is a socialist who wants to destroy private enterprise. Don't wake him up.
- Malacandra95, on 04/26/2008, -2/+9You apparently can't distinguish between taking leadership in promoting an initiative legislatively, and "inventing" something. Your link doesn't prove what you think it does.
- AgentVladimir, on 04/26/2008, -0/+7Dugg for " 'Yo, what is it 'bout all these books?!' "
- inactive, on 04/26/2008, -2/+9How rich do you think this guy is?
- DiarrheaBear, on 04/26/2008, -1/+8"I was disappointed that pornography got to the Net."
actually, he should be given a nobel prize for peace.
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/10/31/p ... - fabio1, on 04/27/2008, -0/+7yep, but still, he´s a vice president at google now
- inactive, on 04/26/2008, -1/+8 therightclique
wow - you really didn't read the article and yet you're demeaning someone who did. - Rocketbird, on 04/27/2008, -0/+6Actually, it'll last you until the year 3148. (I did the math. Don't lie, I know some of you did too)
- sonycam, on 04/26/2008, -1/+6According to wikipedia, the world wide web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf is often called the father of the Internet.
- painperdu, on 04/26/2008, -2/+6Interesting that the "article" is in Internet format, choppy little easy to read sentences.
- sevenslashfour, on 04/27/2008, -0/+4He plays WoW? Ahahaha, ***** *rock.* I know, he admits to "not having spent a lot of time on it," and frankly I believe him. But still.
***** awesome. - MasterGrief, on 04/27/2008, -0/+4Can you both just leave politics the crap alone for just a little while?
- Phillbo88, on 04/27/2008, -0/+4"I wouldn't go on a safari in a three-piece suit."
-AWESOME - mr5150, on 04/27/2008, -0/+4Dugg for crediting porn and not chastizing it.
- celotil, on 04/26/2008, -2/+5^^ OGC
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