Al Gore gets made fun of, but the most important innovation in the early ’90s was the Gore Act [the High Performance Computing Act of 1991] and a subsequent act the following year [the Scientific and Advanced Technology Act of 1992], which opened up the Internet to people who want to dial in and use it for personal or commercial reasons. He invents things like the “.com” address, which means that you don’t have to be at the university or a major corporation to get on the Internet. You can create your own business.
