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#1 Frightcrawler

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Posted 29 August 2004 - 09:57 PM

Happy Birthday!
(in 4 days)

#2 MaMoNy

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Posted 29 August 2004 - 10:42 PM

YaYyYy lets have a party w/ BALLOOOONS!!

i have a question...

why does Al Gore say he created the internet..? i read him saying that once n i heard it in America n.. .. yeah.. i never got what the big deal was..

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Posted 30 August 2004 - 12:24 AM

Nope, he never said it. It was just a mis-interpreted quote from an interview that Bush exploited during the elections. It's a shame really.

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"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."


Meaning he supported the creation of it
But Bush, being either dumb (or surprisingly smart), basically lied to the people and twisted his words.

Mudslinging sucks, especially false mudslinging.

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Posted 30 August 2004 - 12:39 PM

It'd be pretty hard for me to imagine life without the Internet. Imagine all the time wasted at the library doing research and alllllllllllllllll the boredom. lol

Well Happy Birthday, Internet. :D

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Posted 30 August 2004 - 12:48 PM

ARPANET, you get better with age :lol:

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Posted 30 August 2004 - 03:38 PM

so who did create the internet?





Homer: Look Marge, they have internet now.
Marge: oOoOOoo
(lol, i think that's what they said)

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Posted 30 August 2004 - 04:41 PM

Nonono, it was:

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Ooh, they have the Internet on computers now!


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Posted 01 September 2004 - 09:46 AM

The internet was never meant to be what it was today it started with 4 computers in a goverment project called darpa or arpa, i forget.

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Posted 12 September 2004 - 08:09 PM

The internet was started by the goverment as a way for reserchers to exchange documents faster around the cold war era





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