Your family is very techy and it makes sense that they’d be knowledgeable, but the point of the meme is that there was a generation that grew up with tech that kinda worked most of the time, forcing them to learn how to use it to be effective,

The problem is their dates are off. Home Computers went mainstream in 1977 with the Apple II.

The PC revolution started with the Apple 2 in 1977. In the early 80’s everyone had a Commodore 64. By the mid 80’s everyone had a PC. If you were born in the 80’s, you were not editing autoexec files in diapers.

Barry Leiner wrote about how Gore helped get the Internet started:

"The Internet Society hosts a monograph called called “A Brief History of the Internet.” (See http://www.isoc.org/internet-history/brief.html) The authors include some of the designers of the essential components of how the Internet works today: Barry M. Leiner, Vinton G. Cerf, David D. Clark, Robert E. Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Daniel C. Lynch, Jon Postel, Larry G. Roberts, and Stephen Wolff. The paper notes these key milestones in Internet history

Note that these authors of (and participants in) Internet history state clearly that as early as 1988, then-Senator Gore became involved in the goal of building a national research network. We’ll examine his role in more detail later."

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/799/708

“We don’t think, as some people have argued, that Gore intended to claim he “invented” the Internet. Moreover, there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore’s initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving Internet. The fact of the matter is that Gore was talking about and promoting the Internet long before most people were listening.”

• Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn

I worked for Vint Cerf. I later started my own ISP. I know the history of the Internet because I lived it.

I quoted Vint Cerf. What do you have to support your claim?

Al Gore never claimed to have been the founder of the Internet. Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn both defended Al Gore against idiots like you.

Rush Limbaugh was on the radio daily in the early 90’s calling Al Gore’s information superhighway a Democratic Boondoggle. Republicans were fighting to kill the Internet. Al Gore was fighting since the 80’s to fund it so it could grow into something bigger than a research network.

If Eisenhower can get credit for the US Interstate Highway system despite not pouring a drop of concrete, then Al Gore gets credit for the Internet.

I dated a girl in college whose dad was one of the founding creators of the internet. Unlike Al Gore lol.

Bullshit. If her dad was one of the founders of the Internet, you’d know that the Al Gore meme was a Republican smear campaign.

I worked for Vint Cerf in the early 90’s. This is what he wrote to defend Al Gore against the Republican smear campaign:

https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~fessler/misc/funny/gore,net.txt