But I am not sure of your question...are you tal
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Posted On: 04/02/2016 2:38:19 PM
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But I am not sure of your question...are you talking about the FCC spectrum auctions?
No, I was referring to what I just found. A Bill, an Act. My instincts told me that that was what Gore was talking about when the 'He Invented the Internet" meme got started.
Looks like it was a collaboration conceived and passed during the Administration of the last intelligent, pragmatic GOP president!
Remember how it used to look/work? LOL!
Imagine Dubya talking about 'unlocking the secrets of DNA'?
DNA, what's that some kinda secret society like Skull and Bones.
What kinda secrets them fellers hidin'?
They have a kick ass initiation like I went through at Yale? Did I tell ya that Daddy legacied my ass into Yale cause I couldn't get into U. Texas at Austin?
LOL!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Performanc...ct_of_1991
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The bill was enacted on December 9, 1991, and led to the National Information Infrastructure (NII)[8] which Gore referred to as the "Information superhighway". President George H. W. Bush predicted that the Act would help "unlock the secrets of DNA," open up foreign markets to free trade, and a promise of cooperation between government, academia, and industry.[9]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-che...e-internet
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He was the prime sponsor of the 1991 High-Performance Computing and Communications Act, generally known as the Gore bill, which allocated $600 million for high-performance computing.
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But to be fair to Gore, his statement referenced what he had done in Congress. The Internet was the commercialization of the work done at DOD, and by most accounts, Gore’s efforts had some impact.
[ i]He was the prime sponsor of the 1991 High-Performance Computing and Communications Act, generally known as the Gore bill, which allocated $600 million for high-performance computing. Gore, who waged a two-year battle to get the bill passed, popularized the term “the Information Superhighway.”[/i]
The Gore legislation helped fund the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, where the Mosaic Web browser was first developed by a team of programmers that included Netscape founder Marc Andreessen.
While it is sometimes difficult to pinpoint the impact of federal funding, Andreessen said Gore’s bill made a difference during a 2000 interview with the Industry Standard: “If it had been left to private industry, it wouldn’t have happened, at least, not until years later.”
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