- "The Internet has been operating now for 10 years. The second 10 years will be very different."
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, speaking about the future in South Korea where he was meeting with President Lee Myung-bak. Overlooking the none-too-revealing prediction of ten years of change in the coming ten years, the more interesting assertion is that the Internet has been operating since 1998 - the year Windows 98 with Internet Explorer built-in was released. Everyone knows Al Gore invented the Internet well before that...
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Heh, 1998. Of course Bill ... (Below threshold)1. Posted by kbiel
| May 6, 2008 5:14 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Heh, 1998. Of course Bill Gates would only recognize the internet's existence with the release of Windows 98. Before that, I guess it was some weird corporate or university networking thing that no sane person would ever have any interest in using at home. Of course, he does have a point. My in-laws called Internet Explorer "the Internet" until a year ago when I finally forced them to use Firefox by hiding all shortcuts to IE and making Firefox the default browser.
1. Posted by kbiel
| May 6, 2008 5:14 PM |
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Posted on May 6, 2008 17:14
2. Posted by ras | May 6, 2008 5:35 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, speaking about the future in South Korean..."
Bill Gates speaks Korean? Who knew?
Note: The typo is now fixed, but it was there when the piece was first published.
2. Posted by ras | May 6, 2008 5:35 PM |
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Posted on May 6, 2008 17:35
3. Posted by Peter F. | May 6, 2008 6:45 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
"The Internet has been operating now for 10 years. The second 10 years will be very different."
I guess this is why his house is bigger than mine.
3. Posted by Peter F. | May 6, 2008 6:45 PM |
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Posted on May 6, 2008 18:45
4. Posted by Jer | May 6, 2008 6:48 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
"The Internet has been operating now for 10 years. The second 10 years will be very different."
You mean we're gonna need more than 640K!?
4. Posted by Jer | May 6, 2008 6:48 PM |
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Posted on May 6, 2008 18:48
5. Posted by max | May 6, 2008 7:34 PM | Score: -2 (2 votes cast)
Very funny, Jer, exactly what I was thinking.
Kevin, pull your head out of your ass, please. "Everyone knows Al Gore invented the Internet well before that..." How stupid do you think wizbang readers are?
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
Never mind.
5. Posted by max | May 6, 2008 7:34 PM |
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Posted on May 6, 2008 19:34
6. Posted by epador | May 6, 2008 9:32 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Sniff, sniff, a sig for eWorld, gone 12 years ago... ... I guess long before the internet existed for Bill Gates.
6. Posted by epador | May 6, 2008 9:32 PM |
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Posted on May 6, 2008 21:32
7. Posted by Paul | May 6, 2008 10:13 PM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Max why not grow up and join the rest of the thinking world.....
Just because Barbara at snopes is drinking the kool-aid doesn't mean a thing....
Here's how she created her fantasy:
Claim: Al Gore claimed he "invented" the internet.
She says it is false ... because he didn't say he invented it, he said he "created" it.
Expecting idiots like to to miss the fact that created and invented are the same thing... She's playing word games worthy of the Clinton era....
Well, including you, pretty freaking stupid.
7. Posted by Paul | May 6, 2008 10:13 PM |
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Posted on May 6, 2008 22:13
8. Posted by Kevin
| May 6, 2008 10:24 PM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Max, if you'd have bothered to read the links you'd notice one by Vincent Cerf who gave Gore some credit. I specifically included that concluding line because I knew it drives people like you nuts.
8. Posted by Kevin
| May 6, 2008 10:24 PM |
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Posted on May 6, 2008 22:24
9. Posted by Oyster | May 6, 2008 11:03 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I was downloading Quake and Doom in '95 and '96 from that thar internet thingy ....
9. Posted by Oyster | May 6, 2008 11:03 PM |
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Posted on May 6, 2008 23:03
10. Posted by SPQR | May 6, 2008 11:36 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Actually, I was working in the software industry during the '80's and '90's, and recall just how much Al Gore had to do with the Internet that [i]I[/i] was working on at the time.
And the answer was very little, Barbara Snopes notwithstanding. His contributions were minor issues about funding of and restrictions upon the use of, the backbone links that at that time were funded by DARPA and its successor NSF.
10. Posted by SPQR | May 6, 2008 11:36 PM |
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Posted on May 6, 2008 23:36
11. Posted by Mycroft | May 7, 2008 9:26 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Funny, my first account on E-bay started in 1996. My current account goes back to 1997. How was that again Bill Gates?
11. Posted by Mycroft | May 7, 2008 9:26 AM |
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Posted on May 7, 2008 09:26
12. Posted by Les Nessman | May 7, 2008 3:49 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"The Internet has been operating now for 10 years. The second 10 years will be very different."
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates
Vote for me, I'm for Change. Change and Hope. And I Hope for Change. Tomorrow will not be today and yesterday is not today and I want the future to come next, not before.
Candidate You-Know-Who
12. Posted by Les Nessman | May 7, 2008 3:49 PM |
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Posted on May 7, 2008 15:49
13. Posted by moseby | May 7, 2008 4:27 PM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
yeah right...al gore created the Internet...that carbon unit couldn't count his manboobs and come up with the same number twice.
13. Posted by moseby | May 7, 2008 4:27 PM |
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Posted on May 7, 2008 16:27