Tuesday, April 24, 2012

What's on Your Drawing Board Now, Al?

Al Gore has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. It had to happen sooner or later to the man who boasted in March 1999 that "I took the initiative in creating the Internet." Gore's honor was announced Monday at the Internet Society's Global INET 2012 conference in Geneva, Switzerland. He was cited for having "made significant contributions to the global growth and use of the Internet." In April 1999, when his widely mocked remark had become talk-show fodder, Gore joked, "The day I made that statement, about the inventing the Internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the camcorder."   --msn.com

That'll teach us to make fun of him.

A prophet is not without honor save in his own country. --Jesus of Nazareth

6 comments:

Lin said...

Homeboy's got some ego.

vanilla said...

Lin, that he do! Cheeky lad, my grams would have said.

Vee said...

Who would have imagined this!

vanilla said...

Vee, not I, for sure.

Secondary Roads said...

Word from a usually reliable source says he's working on a device that will replace the rotary dial on telephones with push buttons. Says he thinks it will catch on.

vanilla said...

Chuck, he may be on to something there. Sounds feasible.