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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnFJ8cHAlco
This was repeated at least once.
The video backs up the account set out in the link I keep asking you to read.
Did you watch the video? He says "creating", as it says in the Snopes link. It's not a brilliant wording, but it's a reasonable misstatement.
Also, I think it's clear that most people use "create" and "invent" as synonyms most of the time, especially when the object being invented or created is one-of-a-kind (which is believed to be true for the internet by most of the public, though it isn't strictly true).
So, when someone says, "Al Gore says he invented the internet" and you say, "No, he said 'took the initiative in creating the internet' ", that someone is likely to say, "Why say 'no' if you're going to agree?"
Of course, if "created" sounded as silly as "invented", then we'd see both in accounts making fun of him; but the meme didn't take off until "invented" was substituted.
This is either a deliberate troll or an individual who, for whatever reason, cannot assimilate new information.
Don't think it's a deliberate troll - check the account, a history of what I think are sincere but sadly rather low-quality comments.