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Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 week agoOk, 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:
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 week ago
So he did invent it?
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Eisenhower gets credit for building the Interstate Highway system despite not pouring any concrete.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Eisenhower also didn’t drone strike anyone.
MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
General Eisenhower definitely bombed some people.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Eisenhower had probably the worst foreign policy record because of the Dulles bros. Almost all the CIA government coups that happened occurred during Eisenhower and ended up in disasters decades later.
Eldritch@piefed.world 1 week ago
At the very least fathered the internet we know today.