Al Gore honored for his contributions to the Internet: he may not have been present at the creation but he did play a part in it.
As someone I worked with once explained, the OSI networking model was actually two layers short: the eighth and ninth — the financial and political — also had to be mastered for real world deployments. I think that’s where Gore’s strengths were most useful.
Now playing: Symphony 2 – Beethoven by BBC Philharmonic conducted by Gianandrea Noseda from the album “The Beethoven Experience – Downloads”
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