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"revert my buffer" says "All Americans think they invented everything (especially the internet)"

Provincialism and Gore's silliness notwithstanding, I thought the US *did* create the internet - that's part of the reason that root DNS lives here.

Did I miss something?

Philo

Yeah wasn't it a DARPA project or something?

If memory serves

TCP/IP - American (from that DARPA project)
Internet - International agreement connecting several TCP/IP networks with an American guy working out the addressing system
HTML aka WWW - British guy at CERN in Geneva - allowing high energy physics research notes to cross reference.

He's probably just conflating internet and web - a lot of people do.

"Revert my Buffer" sounds like some sort of phonetic anagram for "Perverted Buttsecx" anyway.

The US did invent the Internet, but not the Web. That was Sir (now) Tim Berners-Lee.

You know what's funny? I knew the whole history - DARPA & Tim Berners-Lee; was asking in case I'd missed something. But in my OP I didn't even clarify "internet not web" because I figured in the company of technical people I didn't have to.

Yet each reply does. Weird.

Philo

That's because technical people are, as a group, pedantic assholes.  :-)

For anyone interested I found a timeline here: http://www.internetvalley.com/archives/mirrors/davemarsh-timeline-1.htm

The really anal can go through with a pen and mark which country can claim credit for which bit, whilst the rest of us mock them...

""Revert my Buffer" sounds like some sort of phonetic anagram for "Perverted Buttsecx" anyway."

Yeah, you would think that, muppet.