Originally Posted by Robbie

But how did Al Gore invent it (or claim to have been the guy who funded it)?

The Defense Dept. "inventing" it happened in the 1950's and 1960's if you read the history.
Telenet was developed in the 1970's.

Gore became a Congressman in 1977.

TCP/IP protocol was standardized in 1982 when computer geeks all decided to agree on it. heh-heh

He may have been one of hundreds of Congressman who voted on appropriation bills without even knowing what he was voting on much later after the original idea for it was "invented"...but he personally didn't have much more than that to do with it from what I am reading.

What LATER became the internet was started by the Defense Dept. to help them in their never-ending mission of "defense" (you know, invading other countries to defend our "freedom" lol) as far back as the late 1950's

Plus, it was a TINY TINY appropriation of money in comparison to all the bullshit that the govt. "funds" with taxpayer money.

As a Libertarian...I don't see why the govt. still wouldn't be involved in such beneficial things.

Reducing govt. down to a manageable size and keeping it from interfering in personal decisions, our sex lives, invading other countries, giving money away to cronies, and spying on us and keeping us under surveillance while imprisoning more of us than any other country on Earth...that wouldn't be a detriment to the govt. actually doing beneficial things for society in a controlled manner by WE the people.

Unless that too is considered "anarchy" by Republicans and Democrats (which of COURSE it would be because they would lose their power)