...nor did he invent it. According to Snopes, Al Gore never actually said he invented the Internet. He didn't even create it, but kind of said he did. It appears to have been clumsy phrasing on Gore's part. In quotes below is part of what appears on the Snopes website. (Link is at the end.)

When asked to describe what distinguished him from his challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Gore replied (in part):

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system."

Clearly, although Gore's phrasing was clumsy (and perhaps self-serving), he was not claiming that he "invented" the Internet (in the sense of having designed or implemented it), but that he was responsible, in an economic and legislative sense, for fostering the development the technology that we now know as the Internet.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp