Al’s Internet
I lifted this from the Alamogordo Daily News Forum. It is post #20 and was posted by “Totally Tired.”
“Gore has been involved with the development of the Internet since the 1970s, first as a Congressman and later as Senator and Vice-President. Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn stated in the 2000 article “Al Gore and the Internet”, that Gore was “the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development.”[107] His High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991[108](often referred to as the Gore Bill) was passed on December 9, 1991 and led to the National Information Infrastructure (NII)[109] which Gore referred to as the “information superhighway.” (more…)
