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Old 08-22-2009, 09:23 PM   #176 (permalink)
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Yes the first computer was built in the US but the guy who invented the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, is British. So the Internet is a British invention.
He didn't invent the Internet, he invented hypertext and it's use on the internet to create the world wide web. The internet itself had been around for decades earlier.

It's fair to say he shaped the internet to what it is today, but he didn't invent it.
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