[dctoedt]

> Al Gore is definitely one of them!

Absolutely correct — and that's not sarcasm or irony. (Gore never claimed to have "invented the Internet"; that was a calumny spread by Republicans.)

[greenchair]

1999 CNN interview where Gore stated: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet".

[gilrain]

And that was true, within his context as senator. He was instrumental in passing the laws that fostered the Internet.

It’s astonishing, I know, but the heavily-parroted meme was always reductive and is, at this point, misnformation.