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Urban myth people... he never said that.

[neoquote=#4.1 by Marshalus]Urban myth people... he never said that.[/neoquote] In a sense.. he did. He didn't mean it the way it's continously reported... but he did take credit (and deserves some right to do so)... along with other member of Congress. I think its gets slung around there so much is because of the [b]"I"[/b], and not we (Congress and everyone else involved) In a March 1999 interview with Wolf Blitzer, Gore said, [b]"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."[/b] According to Vincent Cerf, a senior vice president with MCI Worldcom who's been called the Father of the Internet, [i]"The Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the Vice President in his current role and in his earlier role as Senator."[/i] The inventor of the Mosaic Browser, Marc Andreesen, credits Gore with making his work possible. He received a federal grant through Gore's High Performance Computing Act. The University of Pennsylvania's Dave Ferber says that without Gore the Internet [i]"would not be where it is today."[/i] Joseph E. Traub, a computer science professor at Columbia University, claims that Gore [i]""was perhaps the first political leader to grasp the importance of networking the country. Could we perhaps see an end to cheap shots from politicians and pundits about inventing the Internet?"[/i]