This Is An Interesting Question

[Amarok]

But you would not have a modern internet without it

Benny's argument was this site and our communication would not exist if America had not invented the internet .

I'm pretty a world wide net would be needed for both. At least in it's current form

Could we at least agree on that ?

I also point out that we go over Arpanet's components and their components and trace them back to none American Origins . But that would render all inventions on nationalistic lines absurd . Maybe we should all just agree that everything is Primate.

The internet existed before the www. It was civilianized before then as well. Calling it a British invention is silly. The www is the refinement. The guy who invented the automatic transmission doesn't get credit for inventing the automobile as well.

ETA: Both the solid-state and integrated circuit were American inventions as well, iirc.

Well .

The idea of integrating electronic circuits into a single device was born when the German physicist and engineer Werner Jacobi (de) developed and patented the first known integrated transistor amplifier in 1949 and the British radio engineer Geoffrey Dummer proposed to integrate a variety of standard electronic components in a monolithic semiconductor crystal in 1952. A year later, Harwick Johnson filed a patent for a prototype integrated circuit (IC).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_...ed_circuit

The ARPAnet opened in 1969 and was quickly usurped by civilian computer nerds who had now found a way to share the few great computers that existed at that time.

Father of the Internet Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee was the man leading the development of the World Wide Web (with help of course), the defining of HTML (hypertext markup language) used to create web pages, HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) and URLs (Universal Resource Locators). All of those developments took place between 1989 and 1991.

https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-the...et-1992007

first solid-state device was the "cat's whisker" detector, first used in 1906 radio receivers.[7] A whisker-like wire is placed lightly in contact with a solid crystal (such as a germanium crystal) in order to detect a radio signal by the contact junction effect.[8] The solid-state device came into its own with the invention of the transistor in 1947

Karl Ferdinand Braun (6 June 1850 – 20 April 1918) was a German inventor, physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. Braun contributed significantly to the development of radio and television technology: he shared with Guglielmo Marconi the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_electronics

But as I said in my final comment .All this itself had components that had components so even my counter points are moot . And as I said that comment was in response to the idea we would not have this site if America had not invented the internet . Does or does this site use WWW. or not?