He did not say that. What he did say was true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_and_information_techno...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_and_information_techno...
That is not a claim that he “created the Internet”. He, of anybody, knows that sponsoring legislation to enable the creation of a thing is not synonymous with personally creating the thing.
If he got anything wrong it was to be clumsy with words in a live interview. Who among us has not occasionally been clumsy with words in live conversation? That doesn’t license people to keep insisting we said a thing we didn’t actually say.