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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet. The ARPANET was established by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (now DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense.
That’s not an assumption, that’s an easily verified fact.
Were you maybe thinking of the world wide web?
Edit: lol, love the downvotes but the fact that the US invented the Internet remains, well, you know, a fact.
Even the WWW was actually popularized first in the US, specifically NCSA made the first web browser with inline image support which is the origin story for every modern browser (and is part of why every browser’s “User-Agent” identifies itself as some variety of “Mozilla”… the “Mo-” comes originally from Mosaic).
Of course they were not the only people ever involved at any step or of any specific technology, exclusively, but the US played a huge and honestly significantly outsized part in the initial development of the internet as we know it, and that continued for decades (and arguably still does). That’s why they can and do claim responsibility. Because in very large part, they are responsible. It’s not unfair to acknowledge facts. Someone had to lead the way. That was the US. Others followed, and helped, and sometimes led a little bit of the way in a particular area. But mostly, the US led the way to the modern Internet, leveraging both significant government funding and the tech-utopians of academia, then-established-but-now-forgotten tech industry veterans like Xerox and DEC, and the capitalist innovators of Silicon Valley to attract and support the best people and ideas they could use to win almost every tech race they participated in, which was almost all of them.
It’s because they did:
https://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 at CERN by a man from the UK.
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?
We have Al Gore!
Al Gore or of Ai gore?
Ut oh
Tomato tomato
The Internet started as a DARPA project
Umm
Because they live on an island.
