What is the internet?

[PearlWatson]

It sounds like we agree, so I'm not certain what you think I've stated that is false.

The entire point in abstracting the quote from things he did that opened the door to the creation of computer networks to a straight "I invented it" is to demean real accomplishments by portraying him as someone who believes he did the technical work; which is a totally unfair interpretation.

It's worse than what happened to Palin with "I can see Russia from my house." At least that was presented as an obvious comedy bit on Saturday Night Live. The "invented the internet" was a fabrication designed to discount actual vision and work.

LOL! Your Goregasm is still going?
Poor poor crazed sex poodle is being mocked by the racist teabaggers and their stupid murderous leader Sarah Palin. Boohoo!

 

[//r00t 4 Jazz]

A couple of things, ok one thing really if you want us ignorant people to participate in your political or intellectual threads you need pictures or videos to entertain and dumb it down so here is a oldie but goodie and one that applies as well IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRgNOyCnbqg

 

[babe]

It sounds like we agree, so I'm not certain what you think I've stated that is false.

The entire point in abstracting the quote from things he did that opened the door to the creation of computer networks to a straight "I invented it" is to demean real accomplishments by portraying him as someone who believes he did the technical work; which is a totally unfair interpretation.

It's worse than what happened to Palin with "I can see Russia from my house." At least that was presented as an obvious comedy bit on Saturday Night Live. The "invented the internet" was a fabrication designed to discount actual vision and work.

I thought the effort to justify his puffery was unsustainable as a "truth" in it's inference that he did not mean to take credit for either the "invention" or "creation" of the internet. I thought the internet was actually conceived by some computer geeks who would have done it whether Gore existed or not. I thought some of those geeks probably wrote letters to politicians more or less asking them not to get in their way. I thought Gore most likely wanted to harness the internet pony to some of his pet governance concepts, and I considered him dangerous to the freedom of the internet. . . .

You did a good job in pointing out his long- sustained interest in the internet. I also appreciated Vinyl's post referring to his contributions.

My original thinking did not survive the exchange unmodified by further information.

 

[dodo]

 

[Deleted member 365]

LOL! Your Goregasm is still going?
Poor poor crazed sex poodle is being mocked by the racist teabaggers and their stupid murderous leader Sarah Palin. Boohoo!

Have you offered anything to this thread other than pathetic insults (that aren't effective or funny) and this new word "Goregasm?"

If you really can't dispute what Kicky has said and can only come up with these new words while posting pictures of a 40+ year old brain dead mom from Alaska, then perhaps you are the one that has some kind of sexually depraved condition.

 

[Deleted member 365]

It quite frankly, never ceases to amaze me how oft some people attack Al Gore and his work, yet flock to worship people like Bachmann and a recovering Alcoholic and drug abuser who never went to college. I may disagree w/Gore's politics, but I don't understand why he attracts so much attention (and hate) from so many. It's not like he's running for President anymore.

 

[Deleted member 365]

Does anyone remember AOL and having to dialup to use the internet? Cords too? Before we got a filter (or perhaps they hadn't been invented yet) we couldn't use the phone while someone was on the Internet.

I remember when Hotmail came out with something like a 10 MB account. That was going to hold everything!

Napster was sweet. Then after it was killed everyone seemed to move towards Limewire.

Ahhhh the good ol days of using Netscape Navigator and sites like lycos and yahoo to do my searches.

 

[babe]

Does anyone remember AOL and having to dialup to use the internet? Cords too? Before we got a filter (or perhaps they hadn't been invented yet) we couldn't use the phone while someone was on the Internet.

I remember when Hotmail came out with something like a 10 MB account. That was going to hold everything!

Napster was sweet. Then after it was killed everyone seemed to move towards Limewire.

Ahhhh the good ol days of using Netscape Navigator and sites like lycos and yahoo to do my searches.

All I really remember is those card punching machines where you typed in data. I'd copy several sheets of numbers, five at a time in specified fields, on each card, and I made a stack of cards about sixteen inches thick that I'd carry around in boxes, and I'd have to check to make sure they were all in the right order, and then wait in line at the Merrill Engineering computer room to have them fed into the computer, and I'd get an output of about one inch thick of computer paper, and take it to the prof/researcher.

My desktop has I think more computing power now.

I remember apple when it was the great new thing, and I had an IBM in the eighties. . . .boy it's all a blurr now. There was a time at one job I had where the really smart people could fight the clingons or something, and a ping-pong paddle that could mesmerize you down to a complete idiot. . . .

then there were green screens in all the profs' offices. . . .

 

[babe]

It quite frankly, never ceases to amaze me how oft some people attack Al Gore and his work, yet flock to worship people like Bachmann and a recovering Alcoholic and drug abuser who never went to college. I may disagree w/Gore's politics, but I don't understand why he attracts so much attention (and hate) from so many. It's not like he's running for President anymore.

I take this as a point of merit. I am sometimes an offender in being disrespectful myself, but I do realize that useful discussions involving different perspectives require it. None of us are going to improve our thinking by just mechanically running down those who don't see things as we do. We need some input to improve. . . . but I think it's not just the right wingers who limit themselves.

Hopefully, we are all recovering from some aspect of our less-than-stellar origins/past.

 

[LogGrad98]

I take this as a point of merit. I am sometimes an offender in being disrespectful myself, but I do realize that useful discussions involving different perspectives require it. None of us are going to improve our thinking by just mechanically running down those who don't see things as we do. We need some input to improve. . . . but I think it's not just the right wingers who limit themselves.

Hopefully, we are all recovering from some aspect of our less-than-stellar origins/past.

Good post. It is tiring to continually hear each side listening and regurgitating the vitriol from the extremes. They rail against how stupid and evil and retarded and hate-filled the other side is and pretend their side are nothing but perfect little angels with the purest intent and perfect knowledge of all that is good and correct in the world. I really wish people would take off the partisan blinders and view things for how they really are rather than relying on some extremist demagogue to decide what they should think for them.

The fact is every politician has done some good, and done plenty bad, and "swallowed their whistle" (to keep a sports theme =) when they should have spoken up. They support their constituency then turn around and stab them in the back to get the next money-drop from their special interest groups. They make good decisions, then turn around and make spectacularly crappy ones. Sometimes they come out ahead on the positive/negative ratio. Plenty of times they don't. But there is not a single politician in the history of American politics that has done nothing but EVIL or nothing but GOOD.

 

[PearlWatson]

It quite frankly, never ceases to amaze me how oft some people attack Al Gore and his work, yet flock to worship people like Bachmann and a recovering Alcoholic and drug abuser who never went to college. I may disagree w/Gore's politics, but I don't understand why he attracts so much attention (and hate) from so many. It's not like he's running for President anymore.

LOL! Now it's a Goregy!

 

[LogGrad98]

Answer to the thread question.