Let me add my own Al Gore pieces, both no longer easily accessible on line: "The Politician as the Patron," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 22,4 (October-December 2000), 88-89. "But Al Gore Did Help Invent the Internet," History News Service, October 24, 2000 www.h-net.org/~hns/articles/2000/102400a.html Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Dave Walden Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 1:26 PM To: Andrew Russell; sigcis Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Why is HuffPost publishing another "invention of email" series? Not so significant to the Al Gore story as he actually did have significant impact on the evolution of the Internet, unless your point is the nonsense the journalists published ridiculing Al Gore (who only deserved a little bit of laughter, not massive ridicule, for his overstatement): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_and_information_technology At 10:57 AM 9/3/2014, Andrew Russell wrote:
At the risk of (or in hopes of) provoking Tom Haigh and others, I thought I would share the following:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140901/07280928386/huffpo-publishes -bizarre-misleading-factually-incorrect-multi-part-series-pretending-gu y-invented-email-even-though-he-didnt.shtml
I'm sure many of you noticed the recent round of HuffPo stories, promoting the claims of the guy who claimed to invent email in 1978. Similar to the "Al Gore invented the Internet" story from several years ago, this particular "invention of email" story seems to be more compelling through a media studies lens (i.e., why do media outlets keep publishing nonsense?), and not at all a case of uncertainty or debate amongst serious historians or networking engineers.
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