more on Setting history straight: So, who really did invent the Internet?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Ari Ollikainen <Ari () OLTECO com>
Date: May 5, 2005 12:11:28 PM EDT
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did invent the Internet?


    To get this thread back on the original track:

Gore to receive Internet lifetime achievement award
Vint Cerf to present 'Webby' for three decades of contributions
The Associated Press
Updated: 9:25 a.m. ET May 5, 2005
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7746308/

NEW YORK - Al Gore may have been lampooned for taking credit in the
Internet's development, but organizers of the Webby Awards for online
achievements don't find it funny at all.

In part to "set the record straight," they will give Gore a lifetime
achievement award for three decades of contributions to the Internet,
said Tiffany Shlain, the awards' founder and chairwoman.

"It's just one of those instances someone did amazing work for three
decades as congressman, senator and vice president and it got spun
around into this political mess," Shlain said.

Vint Cerf, undisputedly one of the Internet's key inventors, will
give Gore the award at a June 6 ceremony in New York.

"He is indeed due some thanks and consideration for his early
contributions," Cerf said.

Gore, who boasted in a CNN interview he "took the initiative in
creating the Internet," was only 21 when the Internet was born out of
a Pentagon project.

But after joining Congress eight years later, he promoted high-speed
telecommunications for economic growth and supported funding
increases for the then-fledging network, according to the
International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which presents
the annual awards.

He popularized the term "information superhighway" as vice president.

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