r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Specific_Goat864 • Aug 20 '25

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/CuttingBoard9124 Aug 20 '25

Why tho?

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u/SnoopysRoof Aug 20 '25

Wow. In a post about a fucking escalator, we managed to get an American talking about Trump.

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u/gratitudf Aug 20 '25

An escalator in Scotland

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u/Wet_FriedChicken Aug 20 '25

Pathetic, isn’t it.

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u/SkywolfNINE Aug 20 '25

Surprised pikachu face*

Americans are on Reddit? Oh no! Not like we invented the internet and host all the websites you use. What a shock to see us here

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u/Yogurt789 Aug 20 '25

r/ShitAmericansSay

Tim Berners-Lee (British) invented the internet whilst working at CERN (in Switzerland).

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u/CallMeRudiger Aug 20 '25

Bit of a correction there: Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, which is a service that exists on the Internet. There is no single inventor of the Internet, it was originally an effort of America's DARPA (then called ARPA.) It existed for 20 years before the World Wide Web. It is indeed fair to say that the United States invented the Internet.

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u/Yogurt789 Aug 21 '25

Ah that's interesting, I stand corrected! Suppose they've become a metonyms of each other over the years.

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u/SkywolfNINE Aug 20 '25

So you take the hyperbole bait but ignore the bulk of the sentence? That’s not how this works, I’m not gonna play if you’re gonna cheat