Thursday, June 7, 2012

It Wasn't Al Gore?

We all know that Al Gore created the Internet, don't we?  After all, he told us himself, right?

But seriously folks, the Internet was not created by the former Vice President or any other politician, but grew out of a military project called ARPAnet, which was started back during the 1960s.  However, at the recent World Science Festival in New York city, attendees learned about a Belgian information expert named Paul Otlet, who in 1934 conceived some of the ideas that later were implemented within the structure of the Internet.

To learn more, watch this video and read the story at FoxNews (and the links above).

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