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An NBC worker who posted old footage from the "Today" show of the hosts wondering, "What is the Internet anyway?" has been fired, the network confirmed, saying the person had a history of distributing material without permission.
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Three cheers for NBC
 
Millsapa said:
Filmed in 1994, the clip features Gumbel demanding, with a befuddled expression: "What is the Internet anyway?" and Couric stumbling to define it as: "that massive computer network, the one that's becoming really big now."

https://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/05/nbc-fired-employee-for-posting-bryant-gumbel-what-is-the-intern/

The life I have now came about because of the internet.
It is amazing how it has changed my life and how it has changed our world.

Discuss!
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NBC fired the guy who outed the tape. . . all embarassed about the way kids were making fun of it. . . . and then tried to act cool and "own" the story by chatting about it on a current program. . . .

NBC should have promoted him. He made a lot of ad money for NBC.
 
It's time to start a new 'net with entirely private connections, guaranteed to be secure from a number of types of intrusion. . . . like a cable network that the government can't regulate. . . .
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnFJ8cHAlco


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LogGrad98 said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnFJ8cHAlco


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Of course I know nothing about it since it had nothing to do with me. I know the claim seems extravagant but maybe. . . . . . maybe. . . . . . he sat in on a Senate session where somebody mentioned the Internet early on, and he was awake enough to notice the comment. Maybe even a Senate committee hearing about whether to regulate it by putting it under the FCC or something, and although he voted to regulate it more than anyone else there that day, maybe in his mind that should count as "creating the internet". . . . I know a lot of politicians of every stripe who think like that, from the appearances of their campaign brochures. . . .

Now that Cap and Trade thing, yeah, he owns that.
 
I'm very grateful to the crazed sex poodle for hiz invention.
I've met some very great people on this thing.
I've wasted many hours playing WoW, reading blogz, posting on forumz, writing on butt book wallz and such az.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_and_information_technology

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]
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Of course the truth doesn't matter as much as the soundbyte (which of course, he didn't actually say he invented the internet).

It is essentially indisputable that Al Gore did play a key role in the promotion and development of the internet. No less a political opponent than Newt Gingrich has acknolwedged as much:

Former Republican Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Newt Gingrich also stated: "In all fairness, it's something Gore had worked on a long time. Gore is not the Father of the Internet, but in all fairness, Gore is the person who, in the Congress, most systematically worked to make sure that we got to an Internet, and the truth is -- and I worked with him starting in 1978 when I got [to Congress], we were both part of a "futures group" -- the fact is, in the Clinton administration, the world we had talked about in the '80s began to actually happen."
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The "invented the internet" thing is one of the most unfair political lambasts that been used against a politican in recent years. But thanks LG98 for keeping it going.
 
bordelais7 said:
Only slightly more insulting than the repeated use of a tired incorrectly attributed cliche is assuming that no one else understands the story behind it.
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You're willing to assume the posters on this website understand this?

What jazzfanz have you been reading?
 
Sirkickyass said:
The "invented the internet" thing is one of the most unfair political lambasts that been used against a politican in recent years. But thanks LG98 for keeping it going.
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bordelais7 said:
Someone got his feelings hurted.

Only slightly more insulting than the repeated use of a tired incorrectly attributed cliche is assuming that no one else understands the story behind it.
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You're so bi-modal.


(heavy emphasis on bi)
 
I will say that I really love the trend toward every major snowstorm having the paraphrased sub-title "Al Gore is an *******."
 
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