[dragonwriter]

> He still gets a lot of flak from that "invented the internet" comment.

He never claimed to have invented the internet.

He did claim to have taken the initiative in creating it in the context of a broader claim about taking the initiative to advance various important economic, environmental, and educational advances through policy and legislation.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

[eregorn]

Well yeh, that's what I was getting at hence the "don't take it literally" part.

I've seen people still don't like what he said even after knowing it was not literal. Some people just don't want to see the internet as something not only invented by the government, but was not the total wild west they romanticized it as.