[vcf-midatlantic] oldest email address in the club

[Evan Koblentz]

>>> The InterNIC became Network Solutions when Al Gore invented the
>>> commercial Internet - an event we all remember.
>>
>>  Yeah the Al Gore thing was the source of endless laughter. :)
>
> To be fair:
>
> a) He never actually claimed to have invented the Internet
>
> b) What he DID claim, which was totally correct, was that he was responsible in large part for the funding that brought the Internet to the public

Dave R. is right.

Here is the Snopes.com explanation: 
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp.

Here is the transcript of Gore's full interview: 
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000/transcript.gore/index.html.