Here's some more background on him that should interest all you Internet Freaks!

The problem of giving ordinary Americans network access had exercised Senator Al Gore since the late 1970s. Gore began to craft the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (commonly referred to as The Gore Bill after hearing the 1988 report Toward a National Research Network submitted to Congress by a group chaired by UCLA professor of computer science, Leonard Kleinrock, one of the central creators of the ARPANET He discussed the basics of this bill in an article for the highly regarded September 1991 issue of Scientific American entitled Scientific American presents the September 1991 Single Copy Issue: Communications, Computers, and Networks. His essay, Infrastructure for the Global Village, commented upon the lack of network access described above and argues: "Rather than holding back, the U.S. should lead by building the information infrastructure, essential if all Americans are to gain access to this transforming technology" "high speed networks must be built that tie together millions of computers, providing capabilities that we cannot even imagine". The bill was passed on Dec. 9, 1991 and led to the NII or National Information Infrastructure which Gore referred to as the Information superhighway. President George H. W. Bush predicted that this bill would help "unlock the secrets of DNA," open up foreign markets to free trade, and a promise of cooperation between government, academia, and industry. Indeed, Leonard Kleinrock lists this bill as an important moment in Internet history. What are your thoughts about Al Gore?