FWIW from WikiPedia : "...Gore's legislation also helped fund the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, where a team of programmers, including Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, created the Mosaic Web browser, the commercial Internet's technological springboard. 'If it had been left to private industry, it wouldn't have happened,' Andreessen says of Gore's bill, 'at least, not until years later...." There's lot more in WikiPedia regarding Gore's involvement and a lot of credit given to him by many in the industry. Again, FWIW.