[AP] Adviser says McCain helped create the BlackBerry

rimrocker · Sep 16, 2008

Agent94 said:

The internet was started in the 60's through an ARPA grant. The WWW was developed at CERN in 89-90. Al Gore had nothing to do with either.
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http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~fessler/misc/funny/gore,net.txt

gifford1967 · Sep 16, 2008

Agent94 said:

The internet was started in the 60's through an ARPA grant. The WWW was developed at CERN in 89-90. Al Gore had nothing to do with either.
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Wrong. Gore definitely had something to do with the development of the internet/WWW.

Gore had been involved with computers since the 1970s, first as a Congressman and later as Senator and Vice President, where he was a "genuine nerd, with a geek reputation running back to his days as a futurist Atari Democrat in the House. Before computers were comprehensible, let alone sexy, the poker-faced Gore struggled to explain artificial intelligence and fiber-optic networks to sleepy colleagues."[1] According to Campbell-Kelly and Aspray (Computer: A History of the Information Machine), up until the early 1990s public usage of the Internet was limited and the "problem of giving ordinary Americans network access had exercised Senator Al Gore since the late 1970s."[2]

Of Gore's involvement in the then-developing Internet while in Congress, Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn have also noted that,

As far back as the 1970s Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship [...] the Internet, as we know it today, was not deployed until 1983. When the Internet was still in the early stages of its deployment, Congressman Gore provided intellectual leadership by helping create the vision of the potential benefits of high speed computing and communication. As an example, he sponsored hearings on how advanced technologies might be put to use in areas like coordinating the response of government agencies to natural disasters and other crises.[3]

As a Senator, Gore began to craft the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (commonly referred to as "The Gore Bill"[4]) after hearing the 1988 report Toward a National Research Network[5] submitted to Congress by a group chaired by UCLA professor of computer science, Leonard Kleinrock, one of the central creators of the ARPANET (the ARPANET, first deployed by Kleinrock and others in 1969, is the predecessor of the Internet).[6]

Indeed, Kleinrock would later credit both Gore and The Gore Bill (High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991) as a critical moment in Internet history:

A second development occurred around this time, namely, then-Senator Al Gore, a strong and knowledgeable proponent of the Internet, promoted legislation that resulted in President George Bush signing the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991. This Act allocated $600 million for high performance computing and for the creation of the National Research and Education Network [13–14]. The NREN brought together industry, academia and government in a joint effort to accelerate the development and deployment of gigabit/sec networking.[7]

The bill was passed on Dec. 9, 1991 and led to the National Information Infrastructure (NII)[8] which Gore referred to as the "information superhighway". President George H. W. Bush predicted that the bill would help "unlock the secrets of DNA," open up foreign markets to free trade, and a promise of cooperation between government, academia, and industry.[9]

Text of the bill can be found here.[10]

Prior to its passage, Gore discussed the basics of the bill in an article for the September 1991 issue of Scientific American entitled Scientific American presents the September 1991 Single Copy Issue: Communications, Computers, and Networks. His essay, "Infrastructure for the Global Village", commented on the lack of network access described above and argued: "Rather than holding back, the U.S. should lead by building the information infrastructure, essential if all Americans are to gain access to this transforming technology"[11] [...] "high speed networks must be built that tie together millions of computers, providing capabilities that we cannot even imagine."[12]

Mosaic

Perhaps one of the most important results of the Gore Bill was the development of Mosaic in 1993.[13][14] This World Wide Web browser is credited by most scholars as beginning the Internet boom of the 1990s:

Gore's legislation also helped fund the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, where a team of programmers, including Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, created the Mosaic Web browser, the commercial Internet's technological springboard. 'If it had been left to private industry, it wouldn't have happened,' Andreessen says of Gore's bill, 'at least, not until years later.'[15]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore's_contributions_to_the_Internet_and_technology#cite_note-14
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Check the footnotes.

krnxsnoopy · Sep 16, 2008

Didn't you guys know? McCain invented the wheel.. He also helped Noah build his ark.

Chief Rocka · Sep 16, 2008

HE CAN NOT USE A COMPUTER?

WTF?

How out of touch with society can a guy be?

Bullard4Life · Sep 16, 2008

Chief Rocka said:

HE CAN NOT USE A COMPUTER?

WTF?

How out of touch with society can a guy be?
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It's because of his war wounds. He can't type because of the injuries he suffered defending your freedom. Didn't you know that? John McCain is the American Darth Vader. His body is mostly made of parts salvaged from the SS Arizona tied together by threads from the flag they raised at Iwo Jima. He holds it all together with the sheer force of his patriotism.

LongTimeFan · Sep 16, 2008

Bullard4Life said:

It's because of his war wounds. He can't type because of the injuries he suffered defending your freedom. Didn't you know that? John McCain is the American Darth Vader. His body is mostly made of parts salvaged from the SS Arizona tied together by threads from the flag they raised at Iwo Jima. He holds it all together with the sheer force of his patriotism.
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He can't use a computer, my friend, because there were no computers in the cage he spent 5 years in being a POW.

Bullard4Life · Sep 16, 2008

LongTimeFan said:

He can't use a computer, my friend, because there were no computers in the cage he spent 5 years in being a POW.
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Are you diminishing John McCain's service to his country? Because he was a PRISONER OF WAR. "POW" is something that happens when Adam West's Batman socks one of the Joker's thugs. Take the time to type it out, John McCain took five years in the Hanoi Hilton, it's the least you can do.

sook · Sep 16, 2008

Bullard4Life said:

Are you diminishing John McCain's service to his country? Because he was a PRISONER OF WAR. "POW" is something that happens when Adam West's Batman socks one of the Joker's thugs. Take the time to type it out, John McCain took five years in the Hanoi Hilton, it's the least you can do.
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well everything he seems to say ends up getting linked to how he was a POW

mc mark · Sep 16, 2008

Bullard4Life said:

Are you diminishing John McCain's service to his country? Because he was a PRISONER OF WAR. "POW" is something that happens when Adam West's Batman socks one of the Joker's thugs. Take the time to type it out, John McCain took five years in the Hanoi Hilton, it's the least you can do.
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Last time I checked being a PRISONER OF WAR isn't a job requirement for the presidency.

Apollo Creed · Sep 16, 2008

mc mark said:

Last time I checked being a PRISONER OF WAR isn't a job requirement for the presidency.
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Well, let me tell you something mister, it should be. You should e-mail your local congressman about it. I would, but I don't know how to use the internet.

Best Regards,

John McCain

DonnyMost · Sep 16, 2008

Baqui99 said:

McCain is so old that he created the blackberry, the fruit, not the smartphone.
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LOL

good one

Rocketeer · Sep 16, 2008

Chief Rocka said:

HE CAN NOT USE A COMPUTER?

WTF?

How out of touch with society can a guy be?
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It doesn't matter, he's a war hero dammit!

Bullard4Life · Sep 16, 2008

mc mark said:

Last time I checked being a PRISONER OF WAR isn't a job requirement for the presidency.
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Are you saying that the five years of incredible psychological strain that John McCain underwent, which may have permanently impaired his judgment in numerous ways, shouldn't be a job requirement!?!?! I think you may have spilled one of your $8 liberal lattes on the part of the Constitution that says the President has to be an AMERICAN. And there's no better proof of being an American than five years as a prisoner of war. When John McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton, the only thing that kept him sane was dreaming up policy proposals that would help average American CEOs and the hope that he might one day be able to shake up Washington after serving as a senator for twenty two years. I don't know what America you live in mc mark, but it's not one I, nor the rest of the wealthiest 1% of America, would want to be a part of.

Landlord Landry · Sep 16, 2008

I inveted the stapler........
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mc mark · Sep 16, 2008

Bullard4Life said:

Are you saying that the five years of incredible psychological strain that John McCain underwent, which may have permanently impaired his judgment in numerous ways, shouldn't be a job requirement!?!?! I think you may have spilled one of your $8 liberal lattes on the part of the Constitution that says the President has to be an AMERICAN. And there's no better proof of being an American than five years as a prisoner of war. When John McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton, the only thing that kept him sane was dreaming up policy proposals that would help average American CEOs and the hope that he might one day be able to shake up Washington after serving as a senator for twenty two years. I don't know what America you live in mc mark, but it's not one I, nor the rest of the wealthiest 1% of America, would want to be a part of.
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Why sir I do declare, why I have no idea what you might be impalin.

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