🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 18:37:53 GMT, Artemis <tam...@my-deja.com> wrote:

>I didn't believe it but I was leafing through some old copies
>of Scientific American and there in the Sept 1991 issue was an
>article by Al Gore entitled "Infrastructure for the Global Vullage"
>where he called for "high speed networks that tie together millions
>of computers."  What I had though merely an urban legend turned out
>to be fact!
>
>Gore was featured in the issue along with such other luminaries,
>gurus, and has beens as Michael Dertouzos, Vinton Cerf, Nicholas
>Negroponte, Mitch Kapor and Alan Kay.  Al certainly keeps august
>company and it appears from the article that it was his clarion
>call that got the government off its collective but to make the
>internet what it is today.


Only one problem. The date.
The net was around long before that.
And might we point out also that it was an article whose timing is at
least questionable, given it was to give the most liberal candidate
they could find, press, prior to his losing the nomination to Clinton.
 
/E