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the WWW is of the last 3 decades and now powers a substantial amount of the world economy in one way or another But it didn't happen here. Great invention and
by spindritf 12y ago
the WWW is of the last 3 decades and now powers a substantial amount of the world economy in one way or another
But it didn't happen here. Great invention and then nothing. Even something as simple as Geocities took off in the US.
And TomTom is like 1/60th of Google. This whole company exemplifying European IT success is a side gig for Google.
In GDP per hour worked the US also trumps pretty much every European country. Europe as a whole doesn't come close, not to mention ahead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_hour_worked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PP...
- jacquesm 12y ago> Great invention and then nothing. Right. What a pity that that WWW thing went nowhere.
- spindritf 12y agoThat's completely not what I wrote. What I said is that even though the invention was European and wildly successful, it was Americans who capitalized on it with Geocities, Yahoos, Mosaic, Netscape... It was developed in the US, and piles of money were made in the US. And anyway, by your chosen measure EU is clearly doing worse, right?