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To follow up a little bit from the last post … I do not believe that Al Gore thinks he created the Internet. However, even in the Snopes article covering this urban myth, Al Gore is quoted as saying, “I took the initiative in creating the Internet…” It is true that Gore did a lot to help get the world wide web going — and please note that I am differentiating between the Internet and the world wide web; there is a difference! (the Internet proper refers to the hardware, while the world wide web (among other things) is what lives on the Internet — it is all the web pages everywhere around the world) — but the way he described his contribution in that particular setting was easily construed by the general public as Al Gore claiming to have created the Internet, which we know is not true.

Whenever you make such a statement, your credibility is tested. And just because you make a movie about something, doesn’t make it true. You might as well believe in Santa Claus.