The Top 7 Ways the Internet Would Be
Different If Al Gore Really Had Invented It

7> Instead of using TCP/IP it would operate using proprietary Al-Gore-ithms.

6> Out: Flash-based website intros
In: 30-minute PowerPoint presentations

5> Environmentally unfriendly heat-generating tubes replaced by highly efficient solar-powered dump trucks.

4> Accessing the Internet would require a statement of environmental responsibility, but search engines would still run on high-sulfur coal.

3> The biggest music download site, Tipster, would be 100% free, but all the lyrics would be “sanitized.”

2> If your wife caught you looking at those naughty sites, you could always get out of it simply by purchasing “Porn Offsets.”

and the Number 1 Way the Internet Would Be Different If Al Gore Really Had Invented It…

1> Even though the World Wide Web was technically more popular, it would have still been surpassed by Usenet thanks to some faulty Web servers in Florida.

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Credits:

Selected from 27 submissions from 10 contributors.
This week’s list authors are:

Bill Livingston, Decatur, AL — 1, 2, 3 (Hat trick!)
Matt Van Opens, Watertown, WI — 1, 6
James Knowles, Bellingham, WA — 4
Peter Casper, Brisbane, Australia — 5
Douglas Frank, Crosby, TX — 7
Allen Evans, Cedar Rapids, IA — Topic
Kim Moser, New York, NY — List Moderator