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Originally Posted by King Herod

The US might have invented the internet but they did sod all with it till a Brit came along and invented the WWW and made the internet accessible to ALL.

Making the internet "accessible to ALL" also involved the increasing availability and sophistication of PCs allied with price reductions along with increasing telephone line speeds* plus a paradigm shift in working practices .....

..... and Microsoft bundling IE with every Windows PC helped .....

* I can recall paying 1p a minute for a line speed of 56k - downloading a "single" MP3 took 40 minutes, longer if the connection broke and the download had to be restarted (from the beginning) .....