Jones recounted that "shortly before [Gore] invented the Internet," the two of them purchased their first touch-tone phone.
One day, when Gore was bored with his thesis, Jones found him sitting at his desk, dressed in coveralls, teaching himself how to play "Dixie" on the touch-tone phone.
"I took it away from him, because I had to pay half the phone bill, and I didn't know where he might have been calling," Jones said.
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