A zillion years ago, Salon (or Slate? or Wired?) misrepresented Al Gore as claiming to have invented the Internet, and pundits suggest that that, along with all the debate sighing, cost him the election. That’s a horrid case of Internet history revisionism. Here is a more amusing one, from “Padmasree Warrior – technology boss at networking giant Cisco”:
BBC | Valley Girls: Padma Warrior
“The internet started as a business tool but it has now flipped the other way.”
Eh, wot?