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.
That's the same company twice, Apache which was just another standard implementation of httpd (the cern thing) and one company that isn't and wasnt relevant outside of the us and surely isn't known as tech driver around here (Yahoo)
Actually a great summary of why the world does not actually blindly thinks USA! When they think about tech advancements
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.
That's the same company twice, Apache which was just another standard implementation of httpd (the cern thing) and one company that isn't and wasnt relevant outside of the us and surely isn't known as tech driver around here (Yahoo)
Actually a great summary of why the world does not actually blindly thinks USA! When they think about tech advancements
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Your point is like saying whoever invented the car also invented the wheel.