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Al Gore Invents Internet TV
catdevnull writes "The SF Gate is reporting that former VP Al Gore is launching "Current" a new CableTV-Internet hybrid. From the article: "Current, the name of Gore's enterprise, hopes to do that by airing a shuffle of short news features, some produced by the network but many submitted online by viewers. Current will also air segments every half hour showing TV viewers what Google searchers are tapping into at that moment -- everything from current events to tourist destinations. It's all directed at a generation that thinks nothing of plugging into more than one media outlet at once." "
What are you 5 years old?
I bet you are wetting yourself in anticipation of all the flames this topic will produce.
Isn't it amazing how fscked up the US electoral system is? :)
Update For for the dupe. Not going well. Appreciate all the hate mail. Really encourages improvement.
(or invented much later)
It was much later. The internet was already around by the time Algore took the initiative in creating it.
Like Quayle's Tomatoe, Algore's invention is something he will never live down. It's the curse of vice presidents, and all his sycophants need to realize it and get on with their lives.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
Dude, you totally missed the point! Again! Here, I'll repeat myself:
- All an internet is, is a group of connected networks, and yes the concept was invented decades ago. However, the Internet - note the capitalization - with its petabytes of deta, millions of hosts, educational and consumer access was the work of business, government and higher education. And considering you can't name a government official more involved in the creation of the Internet as it is today than Al Gore, his origional comment was entirely appropirate.
Maybe it didn't have that name, but a TCP/IP network connecting universities and government agencies was already in place. That may not be the internet that we know today, but it was the seed from which it directly grew.I see, I was wrong, you are in fact prefectly aware that the Internet as it is today did not spring from whole cloth in 1969, but rather it was an evolutionary process. As the government had a lot to do with this, and Al Gore was explicitly talking about his "term of service in the United States Congress", as a government official there is only one possible conclusion. You are unbelievably stupid.
the truth will not change
The truth is something you obviously can't deal with. Your dismissal of Gore doesn't have anything to do with the facts, but rather the fact that you don't like him and, like Tucker Carlson, can't let go of a good talking point, the truth be damned. The Internet has been an evolving beast for decades, and Al Gore certainally "took the initiative" in that process. You are wrong, you have been proven to be wrong, now deal with it.
I don't understand why you and people like you are treating this like a religious issue.
Since when is dealing with cold, hard facts religion?
The fervency of the rebuttals
We need frequent rebuttals because there are frequently morons who spout the same crap no matter how many times an urban legend has been put to rest. Like the idiots who blame Clinton for the Ruby Ridge shootings (happened before he took office).
Your sacred hero exaggerated his importance in a television interview.
No, he didn't. Your sacred whipping boy made a perfectly honest claim. Even Vin Cerf has said so. Now, deal with it (again) and drink a nice, warm cup of stfu.