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The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything (nos.nl)
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[–] 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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  • [–] 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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  • [–] 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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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    CERN is Swiss though and Tim Berners-Lee is English.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Yeah, that was kinda the point I was making.

    PS: And CERN is actually an international project, rather than just Swiss, though located in Switzerland.

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