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Old 08-22-2009, 09:12 PM   #175 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Neapolitan View Post
The only invention I can think of is the English language. Other than that, it's all American ingenuity, from inventing & manufacturing the first typewriters, and even coming up with the horrible "Qwerty" layout fro the keybaord. The world's first computer was built in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania.
long story short: Bill Gates, Steve Job - American. Internet - American.
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.
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