Submitted 19 hours ago by x4740N@lemm.ee to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Why do americans assume they invented the Internet also known as a Interconnected Network which evolved out of multiple countries connecting their academic networks together creating an interconnected network which evolved into the internet when non academic users where granted access
No one country can claim that they invented the Internet
It’s because they did:
wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet
Sure, it’s possible that a global internet may have evolved later from other nations… but it didn’t.
DARPA may disagree.
DARPA invented TCP/IP and AT&T, IBM and DEC were the first to implement it as a standard. The world wide web was developed in the UK though.
Did you mean to post this to a shitpost community and missed?
Because the first long distance use was kids at Stanford using it with kids from UCLA…
I don’t know if it was the very first thing. But it was almost immediately used to sell weed.
And the first use that used at least two nodes was a dude in NYC.
Where do you think it was invented?
You’re getting a lot of comments correctly pointing out that ARPANET was actually invented by the US in the 1970s and was the precursor to the Internet. I think it’s your question which is phrased incorrectly, and not the point you’re trying to make. Assuming this and rephrasing your question to mean the World Wide Web (not the Internet), you’re correct, that was created by Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN in the 1990s, approximately 20 years after ARPANET. This brought along Hypertext websites, and basically was another step in the foundation of the internet as we know it today.
So rephrasing your question to “why do americans assume they invented the web (websites)?”, it’s mainly because the underlying infrastructure of the internet was originally developed by the US government, so even before websites existed, domain names were heavily American leaning, with .gov being US Government websites, and .edu being US Universities, etc. Other countries at the time had ccTLD for their country code, like .uk, .au, etc and when it came time to assign domain names, they chose to use .co.uk or .com.au for example, rather than .com.
I assume that americans rarely encounter a .com.au or other ccTLD domain names, and largely are going to .com websites. They probably assume that the .au TLD was tacked on to support Australia because they didn’t invent the internet.
We have Al Gore!
Al Gore or of Ai gore?
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The Internet started as a DARPA project
because we made that shit profitable .
he is still alive…
Umm
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET