Al Gore "invented the Internet" smear debunking

[Sent this for Dave Farber's list today, but it didn't seem to make the cut]

Dave, with the appointment of Al Gore to the Apple Board of Directors, I've seen yet another burst of comments repeating the smear that he made the claim to have "invented the Internet". This time around, there's some debunking, but it's still an idea embedded in the public consciousness. I've started a collection of debunking links and resources, at:

Al Gore "invented the Internet" - resources
http://sethf.com/gore/

This includes links to:

CNN Transcript
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000/transcript.gore/

Al Gore and The Internet
http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.Al.Gore.and.the.Inte.html
Red Rock Eater News Service, Phil Agre, Mar. 28 2000

Al Gore's support of the Internet, by V.Cerf and B.Kahn [ I second this djf]
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200009/msg00052.html

Did Gore invent the Internet?
http://dir.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2000/10/05/gore_internet/index.html
Salon, Scott Rosenberg, Oct. 5, 2000

Al Gore and the Creation of the Internet
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_10/wiggins/
First Monday, Richard Wiggins, October 2000

If there's interest, I'll expand the resources to encompass lesser material about the story which isn't well-known, such as Declan McCullagh's (the story's inventor) historical rearguard defense of it:

"And I'm not about to change what I write or how I write based on the efforts of Democratic partisans such as you (and I note that Phill [Hallam-Baker] earlier today complained to my editors)."
http://legalminds.lp.findlaw.com/list/cyberia-l/msg27543.html (3 Oct 2000)

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