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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-13-03 11:20 PM
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Thanks Al Gore - for creating the internet! LOLOLOL
Okay, so he only helped get the funding going. But hey, the irony is delicious. I sincerely believe the fact that we can post on sites like DU (thanks SO MUCH) and have access to news archives and put pieces together here and there has really contributed to the current WMD scandal. A story like Ambassador Wilson speaking out, or Will Pitt's interview with McGovern (is that name right), would take weeks or months to circulate through the public, if ever. But with the internet, one sharp eye, and instantly thousands of people are on top of the story. The pictures on the White House web site are superb and now we ALL know Bush was right in the thick of it, with our own eyes. Yep, Al Gore creating the internet brought the illegal resident down. Awesome.
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CarlBallard Donating Member (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-13-03 11:23 PM
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1. There used to be and ad
for Bartcop.com where he called it "the reason Al Gore invented the internet"
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Egnever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-13-03 11:23 PM
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2. I have enjoyed the irony of this many times!
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foo_bar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-14-03 01:06 AM
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3. the internet was created by the DoD
to fight commies. That has to be ironic somehow.

http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-14-03 02:06 AM
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5. True as well!
The sad part is, these people will be alot more careful what they put online in the future.
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-14-03 01:59 AM
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4. Remember Al's joke on Letterman in 2000? "I gave you the Internet..."
"...and I can take it away!"

Al is my man, but let's let The Doctor operate in 2004.

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