Silicon valley has its origins with HP and Intel, producing hardware and chips.

Yes, the www was created at Cern, but this is only a small part of the whole tech industry and history as a whole.

Also before that, Arpanet, the precursor of the Internet, was created and funded in the US by the military and the top unis.

This trope with CERN/EU created the WWW is just chauvinism. That contribution to the internet is just infinitesimal small. Just stop repeating it as it was the cornerstone of today’s world.

Is just one little stone in a gigantic castle made in the united states. I’m European, and I think is just silly to look who “invented” each thing, trying to feel patriotic about that. Every invention is based on other inventions, research, ideas and necessities around the world. Trying to put flags on it, is just stupid.