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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

I believe Gore's exact quote was, "I took the initiative in inventing the internet."

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Now I had to know the whole story, so I went and looked it up, yes, just another perpetuated false rumor (because it sounds so good), he was talking about internet technology initiatives, not "literally inventing" the internet. The entire long quote, and context, is here:

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp