Arpanet as a project built upon existing ideas to create a wide-area network. Yes, this project began in the US and it built upon the work of others.
I wasn’t there and I’m not a historian, but when I try to understand the facts I see many nationalities and countries having contributed to what we ultimately call the Internet.
Having ideas to create something is very different from actually building it.
Everything is built on existing ideas. It is meaningless to reference this.
> I see many nationalities and countries having contributed to what we ultimately call the Internet.
We aren’t talking about ‘what we ultimately call the internet’. This discussion is about the birthplace of the internet which is unequivocally the US, and which you denied.
The birthplace of the internet was the US. The birthplace of the web was Switzerland. It’s complete bullshit to pretend otherwise.
> It was a collective effort by many people (of varying nationalities) across many countries (US, UK, France, etc../).
It’s a denial that the US was the birthplace of the internet, as it is you answering your own question.
I’ll assume you didn’t intend it as a denial and that this made an unintentionally ambiguous statement. We can clear this up easily with a clarifying question:
Do you agree that the US was the birthplace of the internet?