beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 30 days agoThe Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everythingnos.nlexternal-linkmessage-square56linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThe Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everythingnos.nlbeep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 30 days agomessage-square56linkfedilinkfile-text
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minus-squareAceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·29 days agoThe Web was born in that well known American institution, CERN, invented by that well known American citizen, Tim Berners-Lee.
minus-squareFrostyPolicy@suppo.filinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·29 days agoInternet itself (the network) is based on arpanet which was developed by ARRPA now known as DARPA which part of the US Department of Defense.
minus-squareAceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·29 days agoDoing some of the work developing the modern Internet isn’t the same as doing all the work developing the modern internet.
minus-squareFrostyPolicy@suppo.filinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·29 days agoDon’t know what you are referring to as Internet but I was referring to the low level infrastructure and the technologies at that level. Also Internet != www.
minus-squareFrostyPolicy@suppo.filinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·29 days agoCERN is Swiss though and Tim Berners-Lee is English.
minus-squareAceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·29 days agoYeah, that was kinda the point I was making. PS: And CERN is actually an international project, rather than just Swiss, though located in Switzerland.
The Web was born in that well known American institution, CERN, invented by that well known American citizen, Tim Berners-Lee.
Internet itself (the network) is based on arpanet which was developed by ARRPA now known as DARPA which part of the US Department of Defense.
Doing some of the work developing the modern Internet isn’t the same as doing all the work developing the modern internet.
Don’t know what you are referring to as Internet but I was referring to the low level infrastructure and the technologies at that level. Also Internet != www.
CERN is Swiss though and Tim Berners-Lee is English.
Yeah, that was kinda the point I was making.
PS: And CERN is actually an international project, rather than just Swiss, though located in Switzerland.