President Joe Biden boldly claimed yesterday that he was, in fact, the original inventor of the Internet. In an even more generous twist, the President graciously conceded that former Vice President Al Gore may have played a minor role in its creation, possibly by fetching coffee or handling some light paperwork.
“I remember it like it was yesterday,” Biden reminisced during a press conference, inadvertently dating the invention of the Internet to sometime in the mid-1950s. “I was sitting in my garage, hammering away at the first modem, when Al Gore showed up and asked if he could help. I told him, ‘Sure, Al, if you can figure out how to connect this thing to that thing, you can be my Vice President someday.’ And the rest, as they say, is history.”
The claim immediately sparked a frenzy on social media, with #BidenNet becoming the number one trending topic worldwide. Tech pundits have been quick to point out minor discrepancies in Biden’s account, noting that the timeline seems slightly off and that the Internet’s actual inventors might have a different story to tell.
When pressed for technical details about the invention process, Biden waxed nostalgic. “It was all vacuum tubes and rotary phones back then. You had to dial up the Internet and ask politely to be connected. And let me tell you, it was all uphill, both ways, in the snow.”
Al Gore has yet to respond to Biden’s gracious acknowledgment of his contribution, though sources close to the former Vice President say he’s been seen chuckling softly while tinkering with an old Commodore 64, presumably in a bid to recreate the magic.