Al Gore to Receive Award for Internet

While Al Gore may forever be the punch line of jokes for crediting himself with the creation of the Internet, not everyone is laughing. The Webby Awards plans to give the former vice president a lifetime achievement award on June 6 in New York to commemorate Gore's three decades of work promoting high-speed telecommunications.

The award will be presented by Vint Cerf, who is known as the "father of the Internet" for his work on the TCP/IP protocol. Cerf says Gore is owed thanks for his early contributions while in Congress. For younger generations, Gore's legacy will likely live on through the term he coined for the Internet: "The information superhighway."