Comment by JPLeRouzic
1 day ago
HTTP is an Internet protocol; it is not the Internet. Moreover, it relies on other protocols such as TCP, which itself uses UDP.
TCP was invented in the US 20 years before HTTP.
1 day ago
HTTP is an Internet protocol; it is not the Internet. Moreover, it relies on other protocols such as TCP, which itself uses UDP.
TCP was invented in the US 20 years before HTTP.
That's like saying whoever invented the wheel also invented the car (For reference likely Iran & Germany)
VoIP and games and IM clients and non-web apps and "cloud storage" and all sorts of other things exist and evolve on the internet separate to the web.
It's not as though the rest of the non-web internet is a historical curio or abandoned obsolete technology.
Not to mention almost all the breakthroughs on top of the initial Web happened in the US: Mosiac, Netscape, Apache, Yahoo, Google, etc. Many of them started out as "non-essential" research projects.
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Your point is like saying whoever invented the car also invented the wheel.