Well, it's because of the Americans not the British.
The internet has primarily been built out in the US.
The internet has primarily been built out in the US.
In other words: America was founded by British people. Settlers/colonizers from Britain.
Some of them were British from the outset, but not even all of the original 13 Colonies were originally British:
- Parts of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut were Dutch before they were British ("even old New York was once New Amsterdam / why they changed it, I can't say; people just liked it better that way")
- Parts of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania were Swedish before they were Dutch before they were British
And that's to say nothing about the various Spanish (and later Mexican), French, and Russian colonies annexed throughout the US' post-revolutionary history. If we're gonna assign credit for the Internet to old European imperial powers, Spain in particular probably has just as much (if not more) to do with it than Britain, given that California was originally a Spanish colony (and then a Mexican colony, and then briefly its own country before the US annexed it).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_New_Jersey (and its division into East & West Jersey until Royal union under British Queen Anne in 1704)
Not exactly - as pointed out not all the colonies were established by England (prior to the Union) and while under British authority by the time of the Revolutionary War the people within the colonies were not all from the United Kingdom as most were born in the Americas and a good number were descended from non-United Kingdom parts of Europe.