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SpartanX wrote:
Vint Cerf isn’t British, ARPANET wasn’t British, Al Gore isn’t British :p. [/quote]
No, but Tim Berners-Lee, who actually did invent the World Wide Web, is.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
Stupid newbie ass, you don’t even realize your replying to an American.[/quote]
Well, a boy who can’t distinguish the World WIde Web from the Internet, Britain from England, or a transvestite from a woman, shouldn’t be expected to be able to distinguish an American from an Englishman.
[quote]SpartanX wrote:
…The USA has never been an ethnically ‘English’ colony… [/quote]
Gosh, you are absolutely correct. The United States of America was never an English colony. You are a brilliant individual, Sparky.
However, the political entities that eventually became the first States, namely New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia were for the most part ethnically English colonies, with admittedly some Dutch and Germans here and there.
Which is all beside the point anyway. Tom asked me to name cultural achievements of Britain, I offered the United States. We weren’t talking demographics here, Sparky.
But whether you like it or not, until about 1783, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and everyone who signed the Declaration of Independence, i.e. the folks who invented the U.S.A., were all Englishmen and British subjects.
Hence my statement stands.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
Ignorant statement of the year for PWI.[/quote]
And yet, my spider-sense tells me that he’s going to outdo himself very soon.
[quote]dhickey wrote:
you forgot one.
Lee–Enfield - Wikipedia [/quote]
My god, you’re absolutely right.