McCain - inventor of the Blackberry!

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AP 9/16/2008

Move over, Al Gore. You may lay claim to the Internet, but John McCain helped create the BlackBerry.

At least that's the contention of a top McCain policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Waving his BlackBerry personal digital assistant and citing McCain's work as a senator, he told reporters Tuesday, "You're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create."

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amazing how out of context this has been reported.
support a few telecom incentives and suddenly some reporters think you say you invented and all due simply to McCain's service on and leadership of the Senate Commerce Committee put him at the intersection of a number of economic interests, including the telecommunications industry.
As the other aide says - "a bonehead comment by a staffer".

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amazing how out of context this has been reported.
support a few telecom incentives and suddenly some reporters think you say you invented and all

Wouldn't that make the parallels to Gore almost perfect?

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amazing how out of context this has been reported.
support a few telecom incentives and suddenly some reporters think you say you invented and all

Wouldn't that make the parallels to Gore almost perfect?

Blues,
Dave

Indeed it would! I guess we'll now hear no more snide remarks about Al Gore and the Internet.

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Al Gore's comments were his own.
Tad bit different there fellers.

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>Al Gore's comments were his own.

And completely accurate - he DID take the initiative in developing the internet. When you looked at newsgroups back around that time, there were people just like yourself bitching about how "Al Gore's Internet" was going to suck, not have adequate privacy protections, be too easy to hack, not be flexible enough etc.

But don't take my word for it. While no one person invented the Internet (heck, I worked on TCP/IP protocols when I was in college) Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf were surely two of the pioneers when it comes to developing the technology of what we call the Internet. And here's what they have to say on the topic:

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Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development.

No one person or even small group of persons exclusively "invented" the Internet. It is the result of many years of ongoing collaboration among people in government and the university community. But as the two people who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore's contributions as a Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time.
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huh?

I never said they were inaccurate.
I simply stated that the comments taken out of context THEN were made by Gore himslef.
I'm very familiar with the Internet prior to the WWW days.
That's not the case this time around, comments made by an aide and dismissed by McCain.

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just so long as it isn't at WaMu.

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I think we should put this thread in a lockbox

Well, it's certainly vacant. Too bad SS didn't make it in there. I mean after all, "deficits don't matter".

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Al Gore is pissed that you wasted his internet's bandwidth on such a BS story.

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he DID take the initiative in developing the internet

Indeed! He helped develop the internet. The High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 was Gore's creation. (Some people, if they maintain their position that the POTUS is the responsible person for everything that does and does not happen, would have no choice to to credit GHWBush.) Bush predicted:
"The development of high-performance computing and communications technology offers the potential to transform radically the way in which all Americans will work, learn, and communicate in the future. It holds the promise of changing society as much as the other great inventions of the 20th century, including the telephone, air travel, and radio and TV." He didn't predict porn, though - perhaps the most profitable and lasting legacy of the internet.

But Gore said:

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During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

I think he made a slip of the tongue. He could have said, "I sponsored the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991. The internet existed before tha bill, but the internet as we know it was a direct descendant of it."

There could be no argument there. Slips of the tongue like that are so common.

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