Al Gore DID NOT INVENT the INTERNET!!

That honor goes to Cyrus the Great 

Cyrus the Great DID! The Wonderful Illustrious Zoroastrian first Employed War pigeons to communicate throughout his Kingdom!

(A Recent sale of a First class Homing Pigeon named Armando sold for a whopping €1.25m)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47610896

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Im bored

Also, the internet is a series of tubes

People who believe Al Gore claimed to invent the internet are misinformed.

This thread is a by product of me downloading Gimp today 

Algorithm = Al Gore Rhythm

Tim Berners-Lee be like: "Am I a joke to you?"

His wife invented the PMRC, though.

If AL GORE didn’t invent INTERNET then why was AOL the world’s first INTETNET provider and why does everybody still use the expression LOL? 

I’m more of an outernet guy, myself. 

I believe the children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way.  Show them all the beauty they posses inside.

Ironically, despite the big meme it became after he said it*  Al Gore actually DID kind of co-"invent" the Internet in that he was an early supporter and was instrumental in getting the government backing that was necessary to bring together all of the small, proprietary networks that had been in use for a couple decades into the modern Internet in the 1990s.  So he didn't "invent" it exactly, but it's still partially his fault.

I wonder if Tipper clicked a Goatse link.

*(he never said it)

  On 9/9/2020 at 4:56 PM, cloud capture said:

I believe the children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way.  Show them all the beauty they posses inside.

Let's teach them compassion and open-mindedness too while we're at it. We have enough jingoistic assholes running around who were spawned in the vats of 4chan.

i just phoned a lumber yard i found on google street view and simply asked "have you got wood?"

can't embed the tumbleweed gif for some reason, but apparently all my uploads on watmm going back to 2006 are on here! here's a scary wav file i made when i was 14. it's an mp3.

I can't but be the assburger here (both literally and figuratively) and link to Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet, if someone's actually interested in the beginnings of this consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...

And cats. Lots of cats.

It's kind of surprising that such a big group of nerds would love the music of ARPANET and have no idea what the name means.

  On 9/9/2020 at 5:04 PM, TubularCorporation said:

Ironically, despite the big meme it became after he said it*  Al Gore actually DID kind of co-"invent" the Internet in that he was an early supporter and was instrumental in getting the government backing that was necessary to bring together all of the small, proprietary networks that had been in use for a couple decades into the modern Internet in the 1990s.  So he didn't "invent" it exactly, but it's still partially his fault.

Let's start crediting the guys that laid the cables.

  On 9/9/2020 at 4:56 PM, cloud capture said:

I believe the children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way.  Show them all the beauty they posses inside.

  On 9/9/2020 at 5:05 PM, timbre monke said:

Let's teach them compassion and open-mindedness too while we're at it. We have enough jingoistic assholes running around who were spawned in the vats of 4chan.

The worst thing? When I read "I believe the children are our future" I just knew it was a f-ing copy paste from the lyrics of a Whitney Houston song. Couldn't remember which one. But Google knows. 

  On 9/10/2020 at 6:11 AM, Braintree said:

It's kind of surprising that such a big group of nerds would love the music of ARPANET and have no idea what the name means.

Let's start crediting the guys that laid the cables.

                                                                                                       Gore did invent ManBearPig

                                                                                                                                                      I'm cereal

  On 9/9/2020 at 4:56 PM, cloud capture said:

I believe the children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way.  Show them all the beauty they posses inside.

                                                                                                   1988-1989

                                           The principal at Almor West played this song everyday on the intercom to call us all to the gym                                                                                                                 for daily announcements

"I decided long ago
Never to walk in anyone's shadows
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I'll live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can't take away my dignity
 

Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all
Inside of me
The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love yourself
It is the greatest love of all"

                                                                                                                            Heard Whitney, Heard:)

  On 9/10/2020 at 6:48 AM, goDel said:

  On 9/9/2020 at 5:05 PM, timbre monke said:

Let's teach them compassion and open-mindedness too while we're at it. We have enough jingoistic assholes running around who were spawned in the vats of 4chan.

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Thank you al for making the information super highway super.

What about the African talking drum ?  I'm pretty sure that predates carrier pigeons, and it's also much more effective.

Also much funkier