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About This Page: This is a discussion on Politics within the LetsGoKings.com forums, at Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum. Gore endorses Obama and promises to help him - Yahoo! News
I just saw the speech Gore made. If only Gore could speak in 2000 like he can now. It would've been a better last 7 years.
He could and he did. Sadly, too many ignorant people chose not to listen. Instead, they blindly accepted the words of a fool and mistook them for truth. How different a world would we be living in right now?
I don't care what snopes has to say about it, Gore was trying to make himself out to be some kind of internet pioneer, like it was some legislation of his that got the internet going to what it was when he was campaigning.
I loved his performance at the Oscars, too.
What a douche!
I don't care what snopes has to say about it, Gore was trying to make himself out to be some kind of internet pioneer, like it was some legislation of his that got the internet going to what it was when he was campaigning.
I loved his performance at the Oscars, too.
What a douche!
Of Gore's involvement in the then-developing Internet while in Congress, Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn have also noted that,
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 [...] 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.[2]
As a Senator, Gore began to craft the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (commonly referred to as "The Gore Bill" [3]) after hearing the 1988 report Toward a National Research Network[4] submitted to Congress by a group chaired by UCLA professor of computer science, Leonard Kleinrock, one of the central creators of the ARPANET (the ARPANET, first deployed by Kleinrock and others in 1969, is the predecessor of the Internet). [5]
Indeed, Kleinrock would later credit both Gore and The Gore Bill (High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991) as a critical moment in Internet history:
A second development occurred around this time, namely, then-Senator Al Gore, a strong and knowledgeable proponent of the Internet, promoted legislation that resulted in President George Bush signing the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991. This Act allocated $600 million for high performance computing and for the creation of the National Research and Education Network [13–14]. The NREN brought together industry, academia and government in a joint effort to accelerate the development and deployment of gigabit/sec networking.[6]
The bill was passed on Dec. 9, 1991 and led to the National Information Infrastructure (NII)[7] which Gore referred to as the "information superhighway". President George H. W. Bush predicted that the bill would help "unlock the secrets of DNA," open up foreign markets to free trade, and a promise of cooperation between government, academia, and industry.[8]
Last edited by OddManRush; June 16th, 2008 at 08:42 PM.
"In 1988, a National Research Council committee, chaired by Kleinrock and with Kahn and Clark as members, produced a report commissioned by NSF titled "Towards a National Research Network". This report was influential on then Senator Al Gore, and ushered in high speed networks that laid the networking foundation for the future information superhighway."
Thanks, OMR, for posting actual fact. However, no matter how many times information is presented in its unadulterated form, most Americans will still choose to believe the media caricature that today masquerades as "reality." Sad... but true.
The race is over - Obama lost 
BIG JOE
