@Anonymous: lol...crepes.

@Anonymous: Americans are all a collective unit when one does something stupid, and they're all individual snowflakes when one does something smart.

@stopsign: one stupid series of wars does not negate the stupidity of another series of stupid wars

@Keeng: >memebase

@Anonymous: >implying it's a plutocracy

You need to learn what words mean before you use them.

@Anonymous: The Germans invented the rifled barrel, a Scots Clergyman, Rev. Forsyth, invented the precussion cap. These two technical innovations heralded the era of the "modern" firearm. Out go the flintlocks. Another Scot, James Paris Lee invented the detachable box magazine. The Chinese had "firearms" but they remained crude for generations

@Anonymous: Well, what do you know. I made a woopsie. I wonder how many arrogant people will discount the entirety because of that one boo-boo? I think my "right/wrong" ratio is still ahead in the end.

@Anonymous: That monocle was from me btw. I don't get buthurt when I make boo-boos.

@Anonymous: Self-correction: Counting Bell as a Scot, pretend the Telephone is un-crossed-out. And maybe imagine a little asterisk on "Computers" leading to a footnote saying "automated ones, that is"... which should cover us both for the Babbage difference and analytical engines, the Enigma-calculating electromechanical Bombe (British-Polish IIRC), and its immediate wholly-electronic follow ups.

However, if the USA still wants to claim Transistors and Microprocessors, then get your claim in quick, I think you can probably take them.

(like hell I'm bothering with another remix just to do that)

@Anonymous: During the late 1960s, a branch of the U.S. government titled the Advance Research Projects Agency (ARPA) created one of the country's first wide area packet-switched networks, called the ARPANET. Select research universities, military bases, and government labs were allowed access to the ARPANET for services such as electronic mail, file transfers. and remote logins.

In 1983, the Department of Defense broke the ARPANET into two similar networks: the original ARPANET and MILNET, for military use only. Although the MILNET remained essentially the same over time, the ARPANET was eventually phased out and replaced with newer technology. During this period, the National Science Foundation funded the creation of a new high-speed, cross country network backbone called the NFSnet. The backbone is the main telecommunication line through the network, connecting the major router sites across the country. It was to this backbone that smaller regional or mid-level (statewide) networks connected. A set of access or "campus" networks then connected to these mid-level networks. Eventually this collection of networks became known as the Internet.

During ther early 1990s, the government essentially withdrew all direct support for the Internet and turned it over to private industries and universities. Thus, there is no longer a single backbone but multiple backbones supported by different businesses and organizations, all in competition with one another.

Use of the internet has grown at a phenomenal rate.

@Anonymous: That's all well and good, but what's the relevance to my (now very old) remix? I put "no argument" for the internet after all. Or are you some experimental AI bot that goes around picking keywords out of images then posting copypasta infodumps in reply?

@Anonymous: Dude, that's a glider. _Unpowered_ and/or positively buoyant aircraft had been around for donkey's years before the Wrights, including hot air balloons (french invention), parachutes (italian I think?) and simple gliders (aka sailplanes; don't know, can't be bothered googling for the info).

An "airplane" (or "aeroplane", thank you) is generally considered a heavier-than-air, fixed (or swing) wing, powered aircraft, which although the creation of which was a hotly contested area of development in the late 19th and early 20th century, we can award recognition for the invention and successful initial development of to the brothers Wright.

Unless someone wants to refute that with some kind of evidence?

/notevenamericanbtw
/voteobamafortheloveofgodyoufools