You know Al Gore didn't really invent the Internet, and we know Al Gore didn't really invent the Internet - but the man who did invent the Internet says it's really no biggie that the Vice President tried to get away with claiming credit for it.
UCLA computer scientist Leonard Kleinrock developed the process for sending data over the world-wide network, but he thinks Gore does deserve some credit for at least convincing the government to invest in the information infrastructure back when he was a member of the U.S. Senate in the 1980s, according to Wireless Flash.
On the other hand, Gore did not have a thing to do with 29 October 1969. Just days after the Amazing Mets won that amazing World Series, Kleinrock sent the very first Internet message: the letters "l" and "o". The message was supposed to spell out "log", but the computer crashed before Kleinrock could finish spelling the word.
And what now, with the Internet an international smash? Kleinrock says he wishes that first message wasn't so ordinary.
He'll appear this weekend at CyberNet World Fest, a Los Angeles-based festival dedicated to cyberspace.
