Article about an experiment from Brisbane, Australia.

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    HTTP was developed by TBL’s team at CERN, it was not developed by “the english”. You’re actively erasing the contributions of non-american groups to the modern internet in your quest to de-americanize the internet. You’re a far bigger contributer to this problem than the person who used miles in an extremely informal way.

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        And I never once claimed that it singularly was.

        The name “the internet” was coined by researchers at stanford while they were defining the TCP/IP protocol, which* was then called the DoD model (IIRC the name originated in RFC 675). That said, the World Wide Web itself is a collaborative international work, and it always has been - though amusingly, TBL credits Ted Nelson (an American) with having done the critical work (developing hypertext document linking), and Ted Nelson in turn credits TBL and his team at CERN as the people who took the idea and “ran with it”.

        Nobody here is attempting to assign or take away credit for the development of the WWW except you, which is honestly pretty weird. The internet was an american invention - the internet we use (gestures grandly) is the most impressive work of international collaboration in human history. Stop trying to play keepsies over it, you’re being regressive.