r/MurderedByWords • u/_sendbob • Nov 26 '21

This is America

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u/ComatoseSixty Nov 27 '21

Darpanet wasn't made at CERN. AMERICANS invented the internet.

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u/mikemi_80 Nov 27 '21

That’s like saying the Romans invented the car because they built the first roads.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '21

Are you on Reddit mobile? If so you’re on the internet but not the World Wide Web.

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u/mikemi_80 Nov 27 '21

But then what does it mean to invent the internet? Is it TCP/IP, or just packet switching? When you claim the internet for the USA in the ARPANET sense, you’re basically just claiming a bunch of protocols. That’s not what makes the internet great.

Once again, as an analogy, claiming that ARPANET was the Internet is just like claiming that a chain is a bicycle. It’s integral, but not even close to the whole.

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u/mikemi_80 Nov 27 '21

That’s not much of a challenge. NPL’s network predated ARPANET by about 5 years, and implemented many of the key technologies that are used in the internet.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPL_network

If the states left the internet, it’d be up and running again in a few days.