Myth Al Gore claimed to invent the internet

This has been thoroughly debunked, on Snopes and many other sources. This PROPAGANDA LIE started when Al Gore stated during an interview with Wolf Blitzer March 9, 1999 and said he "took the initiative in creating the Internet" which accurately reflected his leadership role in passing the enabling legislation to open up and convert the old Arpanet into the Internet.

He never used the word "invent"; he used the term "create" in an appropriate legislative sense, in the same way that Eisenhower "created" the interstate highway system, without actually drawing up the plans.

After the slanderous misrepresentation was spread, initially from a misquote by Declan McCullagh in Wired News and later repeated in a debate line by liar Dubya Bush, Vint Cerf, who DID invent the Internet, wrote a spirited defense of Gore's statement, fully validating it, and Gore won the 2005 Webby FOR HIS LEGISLATIVE ROLE IN CREATING THE INTERNET.