The Gore Bill helped fund the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois , where a team of programmers , including Netscape founder Marc Andreessen , created the Mosaic Web browser in 1993 , the commercial Internet 's technological springboard credited as beginning the Internet boom of the 1990s . Andreessen later remarked that ' If it had been left to private industry , it would n't have happened ... at least , not until years later . ' Gore reiterated the role of government financing in American success in a 1996 speech when he , as Vice President , said , " That 's how it has worked in America . Government has supplied the initial flicker — and individuals and companies have provided the creativity and innovation that kindled that spark into a blaze of progress and productivity that 's the envy of the world . " Following a 1999 CNN interview , then-Vice President Gore became the subject of some controversy and ridicule when his claim that he " took the initiative in creating the Internet " was widely quoted out of context or misquoted , with comedians and the popular media taking his expression as a claim that he had personally '' invented '' the Internet . George W. Bush , Gore 's opponent in the 2000 presidential election , mocked Gore 's claim during his acceptance speech before the Republican National Convention that year
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