Posted by the idiot on 09/28/15 11:25

"Blinky the Shark" <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote in message
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> Ed Jay wrote:
> > Hywel Jenkins <hywel.jenkins@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>Didn't Al Gore invent t'internet?
> >
> > The Republicans enjoy razzing him about having claimed to, but he
> > never said he did, and he didn't.
>
> He has, however, just resurfaced in this form:
>
> "Al Gore never said he invented the Internet. But the new San
> Francisco-based cable TV network he's heading promises to transform
> television by plugging it into the Internet.
>
> "Current, the name of Gore's enterprise, hopes to do that by airing a
> shuffle of short news features, some produced by the network but many
> submitted online by viewers. Current will also air segments every half
> hour showing TV viewers what Google searchers are tapping into at that
> moment -- everything from current events to tourist destinations. It's
> all directed at a generation that thinks nothing of plugging into more
> than one media outlet at once."
>
>
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/05/MNGM6C3CB31.DTL
>
> Coincidentally, a buddy just told me about this this morning; he seems
> to quite like the channel.
>
so what is it, just flashes of websites images words etc straight into the
bonce without having to evaluate. concentration levels down to 3 seconds?
will they be doing a section on 'conversations in the pub'?

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