Never mind Al Bore, the Internet was invented by the US Military, to wit, here is a UK reference on the subject:
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~c9814405/cp2014/howwastheinternetinvented.htm
It says in part:
"The development of what we now call the Internet started in 1957 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first satellite, beating the United States into space. The powers behind the American military at the time became highly alarmed as this meant that the USSR could theoretically launch bombs into space, and then drop them anywhere on earth. In 1958 the concerns of people in the US military triggered the creation of the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)."
Later it was taken over by the National Science Foundation.
