"As Vice President, Gore instituted a federal program calling for all schools and libraries to be wired to the Internet. This was a culmination of work that he had started several years before. While serving in the Senate, Gore had introduced legislation which called for the creation of a new federal research center for educational computing to support an "information systems highway". ‏⁶ (http://clinton5.nara.gov/WH/EOP/OVP/initiatives/tech...) This later served as the tenuous basis for mocking from his opponents that he'd claimed to have "invented the Internet"."

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I invented the Internet."---Al Gore [C]

* Distortion of Gore's claims to have been a significant political promoter of the development of the internet. The attribution was perpetuated and altered by the media echo chamber effect.