Originally Posted by
Berticus
Also, sorry to burst people's bubbles, but Al Gore did not invent the internet or even the world wide web :P Internet, as a global network, was available in the 80's. The idea of a global network started in the 70's. There were actually already earlier versions of networks in the 60's in labs at MIT. Jumping back up to the 90's, the internet was popularized with the invention of the world wide web, credited to Sir Tim Berners-Lee (he still maintains the specifications at w3c).