I don’t recall any denials on my part, and for a fact I know my first post was a question.
> 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?