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Gore pushed for funding the arpanet at a time when almost nobody else in congress knew or cared to know what it was. I'm sure he had no idea it would morph into what it is today. He, like all politicians, was being opportunistic in claiming responsibility for helping develop the internet.
Even Vint Serf had no idea what the internet would become. My dad was a computer science grad student at UCLA at the time Serf was there setting up UCLA as one of the first three arpanet sites. Serf at the time hoped that someday the net would connect every university in the country to allow easy sharing of information between professors and researchers at all the different schools. It had achieved that by about 1990. Serf never dreamed of anything like Pelican Parts.
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