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Originally Posted by MysticKiller
I know after research that a British person invented the internet, but still, we probably have the slowest and most expensive internet. Why is this? We did afterall invent the internet!! Will there ever be something like 10mbit availble for 25 pounds a month with unlimited bandwhith either on ADSL or Cable?? And why has Britain fallen so far behind?
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Tim Berners-Lee didn't invent the internet. He invented the worldwide web (in 1992), which is just one of the many things you can do with the internet. The internet pre-dates the WWW by 33 years and was invented by a bunch of American universities funded by a US Government agency called ARPA.
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