The Professor (Humor)

You should read the linked article *first*. [My advisor recommended that I expand on this idea. First of all, "the linked article" is the Wikipedia page about the character The Professor from the popular television series Gilligan's Island. Second, the link is the title of this blog post, so click on the words "The Professor (Humor)" just above this paragraph, and then come back here and read the rest of this post.]

Decades later, it was revealed that all of The Professor's books were
actually hollowed out to hide his collection of trashy romantic novels
that he brought along for the three hour pleasure cruise. The true
source of his encyclopedic knowledge was the satellite link and web
browser (that he of course fashioned from coconuts and bananas) to
access the still highly classified Internet, World Wide Web, and
Wikipedia, all of which he had invented in his high school classroom.

These top secret tools of the military-industrial complex were
gradually made available to the public in the aftermath of the Cold
War. However, they were disguised as recent inventions, mainly to
protect Al Gore's secret identity as The Professor. Of course, the
secret was almost unveiled in 1999 when Gore nearly blew his cover
during an interview with Wolf Blitzer in which he came dangerously
close to revealing that he had actually invented the Internet.

Covering up this slip required one of the most massive disinformation
campaigns in the history of the U.S. It was organized by the genius
of disinformation Karl Rove, who asked for nothing in return except
some minor advocacy in the 2000 U.S. Presidential election by
Katherine Harris (the assumed identify of Ginger) and U.S. Supreme
Court Justice William Rehnquist (actually Mr. Howell).