This Is An Interesting Question

[Thumpalumpacus]

The Internet is much more than the worldwide web.

Try again.

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.

[Amarok]

[Catholic_Lady]

Winning WWII and defeating Hitler. MacArthur saving the day in Korea with a brilliant military strategy, preserving at least some of the country for a capitalist and eventually democratic government which we consider a big step up from N. Korea.

Other than that, practically the entire modern industrial and electronic world that we live in was created by America. We are using about 20 American inventions right now in just communicating our ideas online. And that's not a trivial contribution. It deserves to be called a great contribution, and at least in these senses, America fully deserves the title "great."

I think this is a case of "What have you done for me lately?" Will, in Bill Maher's case, the technology and freedoms afforded by American ingenuity and the constitution have allowed a political comedian to become super famous and earn many millions of American dollars.

Amazing post. As an immigrant from South America, I am so incredibly grateful to be here.

[Minimalist]

[Thumpalumpacus]