> ideas to create a wide-area network

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.