I seem to recall that the code breaker machine that was first used at Bletchly park, and that would soon lead to the electronic computers of the early years, was actually a Polish design. Alan Turing (UK) was the first to use electronic tubes as switches in the design, significantly improving its processing speed. The yanks took the technology with them statewise in the final stages of the war. The first real PC chipset, the 8086 and 8088 series, were actually spin-offs of the NASA moonlanding projects. And we all know how many ex-nazi's and other non-US trained engineers worked on that.

The Internet itself, or rather the hardware network structure that acts as infrastructure orginates with the US Defense ARPA network I beleive. A US build grid that was to be used by the defensive forces or guerilla's during an sovjet occupation. The software part of it, HTML etc, was actually thought up by European engineers at the CERN partical research institute in Zwisterland. The porno that made the net great in the beginning came from all sides.

Netscape/mosaic was/is US based. Cheap computers and parts that allow its rapid introduction into households came (and still come) from Asian nations. I'm using a flat screen monitor right now (Japanese patent), before I used a electron tube monitor (european patent, many of which are Philips patents = Dutch). The bloody thing uses electricity (European invention), halve of its used plastics are patented by DOW chemical, the other halve by various European and Asian companies like the Dutch DSM company. The Lithography machines used to make the chips are most likely made by ASML Lithography (Dutch company). I think they have 85 % of the world market in that area.

The English language I use for communication is a European invention. Language as general invention is an African invention. Written language is an Asia minor invention (mesoptemia). Who actually invented the Binairy number system. The general invention of numbers and its aritmatic is actually an Arabian invention. Mathematics, or rather its ald name "Algebra", is derived from the Arabic scholar Al-Jabr (present day Iraq). He was the first to write a text book on Algebraic concepts and started the whole field of present day Algebra (mathematics). Of course he used various sources of older mathematical discoveries. Many of them Greek, Arabic and Sanskrit (india) origin.

Yes, I would say that this was pretty much a global effort. But leave it to the Yanks to claim all the credit for it.

They also think that they invented the Applepie, pizza, TV and automobiel.

Wouter