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A research project from Cern in Switzerland mind you. And a English guy who created all the protocols there

HTTP is an Internet protocol; it is not the Internet. Moreover, it relies on other protocols such as TCP, which itself uses UDP.

TCP was invented in the US 20 years before HTTP.

That's like saying whoever invented the wheel also invented the car (For reference likely Iran & Germany)

VoIP and games and IM clients and non-web apps and "cloud storage" and all sorts of other things exist and evolve on the internet separate to the web.

It's not as though the rest of the non-web internet is a historical curio or abandoned obsolete technology.

Not to mention almost all the breakthroughs on top of the initial Web happened in the US: Mosiac, Netscape, Apache, Yahoo, Google, etc. Many of them started out as "non-essential" research projects.

That's the same company twice, Apache which was just another standard implementation of httpd (the cern thing) and one company that isn't and wasnt relevant outside of the us and surely isn't known as tech driver around here (Yahoo)

Actually a great summary of why the world does not actually blindly thinks USA! When they think about tech advancements

Apache was quickly spun off from its NCSA roots to become its own thing. There's a lot of history here that you're twisting around or ignoring. I'm not even American but, while lots of other countries made their own contributions, it's insane to argue that networked computing would have advanced anything like it did without the US's innovations borne of their (former) attitude of experimentation and exploration.

Your point is like saying whoever invented the car also invented the wheel.

That doesn't defeat the point. It makes the point that research benefits all. That research can't happen in vacuum. It needs to be funded and culture and institutions build around it.

For a technology forum, the sheer volume of pettiness and anti-science and technology attitude is confounding.

People here sounds like the most mediocre managers I've ever worked with in my life.

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