NOT INVENTED HERE [Internet]

Online Newsletter, April, 1999

Perhaps it was a bit of blarney in preparation for St. Patrick's Day or for April Fools Day when Vice President Al Gore recently made the statement ''I took the initiative in creating the Internet.'' -- That statement has become the source for a lot of jokes and kidding from just about everyone, including former Vice President Dan Quayle (made famous for - and forever kidded for misspelling ''potato'') who said, ''If Gore invented the Internet, I invented Spell-Check.'' Gore -is- credited with creating the term ''information superhighway,'' but we think that's the beltway around Washington, DC that's responsible for another Gore feature called ''global warming,'' from all the hot air generated there.

-- Scientists who helped to actually create the Internet do concede however, that Gore has done much to publicize and support the Internet. Gore also was head of the Senate Commerce Science Subcommittee that oversaw legislation in 1986 that created the five supercomputers that led ultimately to the National Science Foundation (NSF) in creating the network. ... Anyway, Happy April Fools Day! [RSH]