Gore to receive lifetime achievement award for support of early Internet

Via washingtonpost.com: Organizers of the Webby Awards will give Al Gore an award for lifetime achievement at a ceremony in New York on June 6. The awards? founder Tiffany Shlain said the award is partly to ?set the record straight? about Gore?s contributions to the development of the Internet. Gore has been widely lampooned for saying in a CNN interview that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet."

While in Congress, Gore supported early Internet initiatives, and while he was vice president, he helped bring the term ?information superhighway? into common parlance.