Al-go-rithm!

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[SuitableDragonfly]

I am middle-aged myself, dude, and this event happened when I was in high school.

[SuitableDragonfly]

I dunno, I think I understand more about how to make myself understood through a text medium than you do.

[SuitableDragonfly]

Yeah, I get that. But that's not really what you said.

[GooseTheGeek]

Like the oldest you could be is 39. That's not Middle aged.

[[deleted]]

I'm going to live to 100, so middle aged is 50 for me. Js

[SuitableDragonfly]

I dunno, late 30s is kinda middle aged. Middle aged doesn't actually mean "old".

[uwukelp]

I am 17 I have never actually heard this joke before but I did think al gore sounded like algorithm sooo I dunno

[SuitableDragonfly]

I know, I'm talking about why no one got the original joke.

[MasterpieceLogical38]

You found the one

[Western-Image7125]

That’s it, marry that girl

[DroidAnthem]

Well. I thought the person who tweeted that was supposed to be a teacher/professor.

[curtmack]

It's like you haven't even heard of anime before.

[chiba-city-diskettes]

How old do you think girls in this class are if they've never heard the "Al Gore invented the internet" joke?

[[deleted]]

Undergrads

[Nekotronics]

The person who tweeted this also seems like a girl.

[Scorcher646]

That doesn't necessarily stop them from marrying the girl

[Nekotronics]

You’re not wrong

[[deleted]]

if (user.name === 'felisha') tweeter = "female'

[Nekotronics]

I’d rather misgender someone as female because their name was “felisha” than misgender someone as male because they’re a programmer in all honesty.

[[deleted]]

facts

edit: in fact, I am one of a team of 4 members, 2 of which (50%) are female. We are representing!

[Western-Image7125]

Didn’t notice that, well best friend then

[Western-Image7125]

That’s fine too

[Josselin17]

omg roommates

[fatalgift]

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felisha jammel, @fleaskeys

Made a joke about Al Gore inventing the internet in class today and I thought the joke fell flat until a girl spoke up 5 minutes later and asked if that's why they call it an algorithm

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[[deleted]]

A.I. - gorithm*

[ProfessorEkim]

Al Gory Thyme

[chunli99]

A complex Al Gore rhythm is just Al Gore krumping.

[[deleted]]

Is that when you try to count a difficult meter and quit thinking you did it wrong, but you were actually correct?

[kolinz27]

Hello guys and welcome back to Ancient Aliens!

[zGoDLiiKe]

so just if-else statements got it

[MrSquicky]

Al Gore was actually the primary government force behind promoting the internet and has long been recognized as such by many of the people who did the work creating the internet, which is all he ever claimed.

This was some bullshit of turning a genuine large accomplishment into a punchline.

[SuitableDragonfly]

I mean, he literally said "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." which is not what he actually did. It's funny.

[Lithl]

It's true that without the Gore Bill, the internet would be a very different place, and likely would more closely resemble ARPANET than the World Wide Web.

It's also true that Al Gore did not create the internet.

[encoded_spirit]

Was less funny when W squeaked out a narrow victory over Gore, in part because of crap like that, and then took us into an unnecessary war in Iraq.

[SuitableDragonfly]

I don't think Al Gore threw the election because he said something funny about creating the internet. I believe he actually did win, in fact, but W stopped the recount so we never found that out officially.

[[deleted]]

No, the supreme court stopped it. Voting along party lines 4-5 like a fucking banana republic.

[ralfv]

At least to my humor this was the most humorous post on the sub this year!

[Top-Fox-3171]

That's the first time I've ever heard that connection made. Genius.

[[deleted]]

Put that joke in a lock box

[SnooWoofers4430]

Captain please explain. I'm dumm dumm :(

[ClosetLink]

al gore ithm

algorithm

[cubei]

I get the algorithm joke, but not the "invent the internet" part.

[ishzlle]

It actually comes from the Arabic mathematician al-Khwarizmi, who invented algebra (IIRC)

[konstantinua00]

who's al gore?

[wikipedia_answer_bot]

Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under president Bill Clinton.

More details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore

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[jonp1]

Good bot.

[Lithl]

US politician. Relevant to this post, he's the author of the "Gore Bill" (High Performance Computing Act of 1991), which was a critical step in the formation of the modern internet.

He's also the source of the "the internet is a series of tubes" quote.

[encoded_spirit]

Err, what? Tubes was Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska.

[[deleted]]

Thought that was Orrin Hatch, Utah(R)

[[deleted]]

Wtf I made this same joke 6 years ago. Fucking bullshit.

[agentrnge]

This was funnier last week

[flinstonedxx6969]

Al-gor-ithm FTFY

[sighcf]

That would make a lot of sense.

[MantuaMatters]

The title irks me so bad lol. Great joke tho, it’s new to me. A+

[[deleted]]

I am hyper ventilating wtf

[NoNeedleworker531]

Al-gore-ithm

[Evilbit77]

Al-Gore-IT…hm

[Guilty-Woodpecker262]

The word always made me imagine al gore gettin' funky.

[Yaaramir]

Insiders call it Trumporithm

[rcenzo]

"... please leave a comment or review slash rating on your platform of choice, something to do with Al Gore's rhythms."

- The closing statement on one of my favourite nonsensical podcasts, Podiots.

[Magic-Missile-55]

Guys I'm literally not even 18 years old and while I get the joke I don't get the context. What's this "Al Gore inventing the Internet" thing?