Except.....Gore didn't say that.
BLITZER: I want to get to some of the substance of domestic and international issues in a minute, but let's just wrap up a little bit of the politics right now.
Why should Democrats, looking at the Democratic nomination process, support you instead of Bill Bradley, a friend of yours, a former colleague in the Senate? What do you have to bring to this that he doesn't necessarily bring to this process?
GORE: Well, I will be offering -- I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. And it will be comprehensive and sweeping. And I hope that it will be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be. But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. 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. During a quarter century of public service, including most of it long before I came into my current job, I have worked to try to improve the quality of life in our country and in our world. And what I've seen during that experience is an emerging future that's very exciting, about which I'm very optimistic, and toward which I want to lead.
And although ARPNET (spelling?) was around as of 1967 or so, Gore
was advocating for expansion of high-speed internet as far back as the 70s. And in fact, he started drafting and ultimately got passed the "
High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991."
Even Newt Gingrich said “In all fairness, it’s something Gore had worked on a long time. Gore is not the Father of the Internet, but in all fairness, Gore is the person who, in the Congress, most systematically worked to make sure that we got to an Internet…”
That bill lead to creation of the National Information Infrastructure (Gore's "information superhighway) and, long story short, helped the internet explosion happen when it did. Someone would have done it later, but Gore did in fact take the initiative in pushing this through.
So he never claimed to have invented the internet nor did he claim to be the only person to have ever worked on it.
For sources, read the first ten links of this google search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Gore+invented+internet+full+quote&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
But hey, thanks for doing what I predicted by making a "but a liberal" comment. I should have also included in my prediction that the "but a liberal" comment was also likely to be a lie.
