{"id":3292,"date":"2005-05-05T12:41:40","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T12:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/gore-gets-internet-award.html"},"modified":"2005-05-05T12:41:40","modified_gmt":"2005-05-05T12:41:40","slug":"gore-gets-internet-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/gore-gets-internet-award.html","title":{"rendered":"Gore Gets Internet Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">Love him or hate him, he helped popularize the Internet with his use of the term \u201cInformation Superhighway\u201d on national TV. It was around the time he made this speech that the Internet took off. Gore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/enews\/030101i.htm\">spoke at a past TMC event<\/a> and made light of the whole \u201cInventing the Internet\u201d situation. This was right after he lost the presidency to Bush. The audience was surprised at how loose and relaxed he was in person as opposed to TV. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/7746308\/\">Here are the details on the award he will be receiving<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, we took a lot of heat as our speaking contract with Vice President Gore said that we must refer to him as the \u201cThe Honorable Al Gore\u201d whenever he referenced him. People subsequently assumed we were endorsing Gore. A number of \u201cnon-Gore\u201d fans were nice enough to let us know how they felt. The most memorable response I recall receiving was that a person would only come to the speech if we supplied a bucket of rotten fruit for him to throw.<\/p>\n<p>Still, we had somewhere around 1,500 people in the room to listen to Gore speak and he did an amazing job. Much better than any time I ever saw him on TV.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love him or hate him, he helped popularize the Internet with his use of the term \u201cInformation Superhighway\u201d on national TV. It was around the time he made this speech that the Internet took off. Gore spoke at a past TMC event and made light of the whole \u201cInventing the Internet\u201d situation. This was right<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}