WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Science Committee Chairman F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER, JR., (R-WI) today expressed surprise at learning Vice President Al Gore is taking credit for creating the Internet.
"Having served with the Vice President for four years on the Science Committee, I must admit I had no idea my friend Al Gore created the Internet. I know he was involved in a lot of big projects like accomplishing the 'strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine' (Earth in the Balance, p. 326), but I was totally unaware of his Internet creation," Sensenbrenner said.
In an interview that aired March 9, 1999 with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Gore said, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
The Internet's initial development, a system called ARPANET, here-to-for had been credited to scientists in the 1960's, with approximately thirty universities having ARPANET by 1971. Al Gore did not serve in Congress until 1979.
"Vice President Gore taking credit for creating the Internet certainly gives new meaning to the term 'March Madness,'" added Sensenbrenner.
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