Actually, Americans DID invent the Internet. You're equating the Internet with the World Wide Web, but they're not the same, the latter being just one function of the Internet. The Internet was originally developed by DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, as a means to share information on defense research between involved universities and defense research facilities. Originally it was just email and FTP sites as well as the Usenet where scientists could question and answer each other. It was originally called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork). The concept was developed starting in 1964, and the first messages passed were between UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute in 1969. The scientists at CERN (like Tim Berners-Lee) worked on HTML for the WWW, which came later.
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