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[–] axh@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago (8 children)

It's always funny (and sad) when someone from the USA points out that almost all internet services are US owned, not European, it sounds like they did all the work developing the modern internet, and while Americans really did a lot, they also bought a lot of services created in other countries.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 months ago (7 children)

The Web was born in that well known American institution, CERN, invented by that well known American citizen, Tim Berners-Lee.

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[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Internet itself (the network) is based on arpanet which was developed by ARRPA now known as DARPA which part of the US Department of Defense.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Doing some of the work developing the modern Internet isn't the same as doing all the work developing the modern internet.

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[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

Don't know what you are referring to as Internet but I was referring to the low level infrastructure and the technologies at that level. Also Internet != www.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 5 months ago