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." "

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Whole discussion: -1 Flamebait

[ImaLamer]

He actually said he "took the initiative in creating the internet"

Poor choice of words? Maybe, but Wired misquoted (libel!) him and put the word "Invented" in his mouth.

Either way, Al Gore did coin the phrase "Information Superhighway" and Eisenhower should get credit for the Internet because it's his vision of the Interstate system that was the fundamental idea that went into creating the Internet (and that was in like the 1950's!)

Re:It will be crap

[doppe1]

I think this will be an exercise in the value of entertainment corporations screening out most of the crap.

What, you mean the stuff we get has had most of the crap screened out.

Interesting fella...

[bar-agent]

Al Gore is an interesting fellow. Let's take a look at what he's done, shall we?

• Advanced the Internet
• Guest-starred multiple times on Futurama
• Was Vice-President
• On the Apple Board of Directors
• Now going into...um...network television.

I gotta tell you, I respect the guy. And this is only what I know about!

Re:NSF had nothing to do with his funny claim

[Brandybuck]

Dude, I was USING the internet before Al Gore was ever got involved! 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.

Al Gore didn't create a damned thing, all he did was spend money to expand it. No matter how many times his fans mod it down as flamebait, the truth will not change.