That'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 wit

That'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?