Claim: Vice-President Al Gore claimed that he "invented" the Internet. > Status: False. Good for you, bonni. And anyone who's looked into it will tell you Gore most definitely was one of the primary movers in Washington when it came to the Internet. He was supporting the funding and the commercialization of the Internet when the majority of Americans didn't know there was such a thing. And, in fact, as we know it today, there wasn't. Gore was once the most visible, most prominent and most outspoken leader in Congress on Internet issues like data transmission and computing power, and those efforts certainly played a very important role in helping to create the Internet we know today. Now if we could just get certain unspecified folks to recognize all the other lies they're being told on a daily basis ...