Was it really only 25 years ago.

MrWizard wrote:
And just maybe it has to do with world wide web aka the internet aka public Access

The Web was Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Switzerland. Commercial, public, Internet came about from private companies forming CIX, and the eventual transition away from NSFnet's no-commercial-use AUP. That was happening before Gore's principle contribution, the funding provided by his High-Performance Computing Act of 1991. Although that no doubt accelerated the transition to the modern commercial Internet, there was already enough interest and investment commercially that it was going to happen anyway. Those were the days of CompuServe, AOL, the Source, the Well, Fidonet, etc., and it was obvious everything would eventually move to an internet once the commercial restrictions were eased. Al Gore was an advocate, but it's overstated to claim he initiated or created the Internet.