Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service

• SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I thought Al Gore invented the internet in the ‘90’s.

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ok, rant time!!!

    I worked for Vint Cerf back in the early 90’s. I became aware of the politics around it when Al Gore pushed for funding so the Internet could grow into something bigger than a University/Military communication system. Rush Limbaugh was on the radio daily railing against Al Gore’s Boondoggle. Clinton/Gore secured funding and the Internet exploded in use.

    During the 1999 Presidential election, Republicans took Al Gore’s greatest political accomplishment, getting Congress to fund the creation of the Internet, and made it a joke.

    Vint Cerf wrote this letter as a result:

    web.eecs.umich.edu/~fessler/misc/…/gore,net.txt

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      So he did invent it?

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      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Eisenhower gets credit for building the Interstate Highway system despite not pouring any concrete.

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      • Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        At the very least fathered the internet we know today.

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  • DancingBear@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well, back then it was a bunch of tubes.

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