The Proposed 38 United States of America
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If you run around wild, you get smacked, and that’s it. That’s the laws of the universe.
Gore never claimed to have “invented the Internet,” though columnists said otherwise and had sport with him anyway. Here’s what Gore really did: throughout the 1980s, as a senator from Tennessee, he stood out as a highly visible, early proponent of networking. In 1991, Congress passed the High-Performance Computing Act, also known as “the Gore Act,” which paved the way for a privatized, commercialized Internet that could thrive and evolve outside the government’s hands—in other words: the Internet as we know it today. (via Inventing the Internet: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com)
