Al Gore actually deserves a lot of credit. In about 1986, he started asking questions like, 'Why don't we take these supercomputers and these optical fiber networks and put them together. Would that do anything' Well, guess what That eventually turned into the National Science Foundation Network, which became a core element of the Internet.
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