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> the internet was invented here In Europe?
by chrisseaton 4y ago
> the internet was invented here
In Europe?
- ad404b8a372f2b9 4y agoWell the Web if you prefer.
- chrisseaton 4y agoThey're two different things. The Internet was invented in the US. I'm European as well, but not sure why you'd need to overreach to claim we invented the Internet.
- kazen44 4y agopacket based networking was invented in the US... The internet was created by meshing many different networks together (mostly ARPANET and SFNET). Networks which now form the backbone of the internet also existed in europe at the time, mainly in britain and france.
- ad404b8a372f2b9 4y agoYes we are all aware they are different things, I made a semantic leap because the terms are used interchangeably in common parlance. I should have known a technical forum would take me up on that.
- lizardactivist 4y agoThey mean the WWW, which is really what the Internet has always been about. And yes, it was invented in Europe.
- kazinator 4y agoThe web browser which actually made the web usable and popularized it was Mosaic. "Mosaic was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign beginning in late 1992." -- Wikipedia Other than Linux's European origin, Europe has not produced any viable operating system or browser. It continues to rely on key software of American origin, like the rest of the world.
- ElemenoPicuares 4y agoThis is one of those "pizza was invented in New York City" arguments. Popularized and refined != invent. The Brit Tim Berners-Lee designed the architecture, wrote the first browser and web server, and wrote the first HTML spec at CERN around 1989. Mosaic was released in like 1993 after Berners-Lee released his specs and source. To claim the internet was invented in Europe is equally absurd.
- chrisseaton 4y ago> which is really what the Internet has always been about Internet created 1983. WWW created 1989.