> the WWW and things like HTML, HTTP, URLs etc. are technically from a British guy working in Switzerland (CERN) but I suppose crediting it to any country is kind of pointless

A postdoc at CERN coming up with a text format isn't quite the same as what is invented elsewhere, though.

> These days a lot of it runs on machines that run on a Linux kernel, also technically from Europe

True, although much of the development is funded by American companies, who give their work away.