IP: yet again -- Inventing the Internet

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

It is nice to see confirmation of something I have said often and 
loudly coming from someone like Joe DJF

> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 16:23:51 -0500 (EST)
> From: Joseph Traub <traub () cs columbia edu>
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> cc: Joseph Traub <traub () eigen cs columbia edu>
> Subject: Inventing the Internet
>
> The media and politicians have had much fun about the Vice-President's
> purported claim that "I invented the internet". It is the case that Al
> Gore was perhaps the the first political leader to grasp the importance
> of networking the country (and later the world).
>
> In 1986 I chaired the Computer science and Telecommunications Board and
> Gore was our dinner speaker at the National Academy of Sciences. He spoke
> about the importance of a  National Information Infrastructure. At the
> time he was a senator from a fairly small Southeastern state and I was
> amazed at his national vision. He has continued to be a national leader in
> promoting the importance of the internet for commerce and education.
> Could we perhaps see an end to cheap shots from politicians and pundits
> about inventing the internet.