As we all know, Al Gore invented the internet. Or maybe he didn’t invent it, but he said he did. Or maybe that’s not even true… I still see this come up fairly regularly, and I kind of feel bad for Gore about it. He indeed did great work to help the internet grow, and he never directly claimed to have invented it. This was really a case of opponents creating a fake story out of a somewhat-accurate quote and then getting everyone to run with it.