Canadians telling you why they think America is Great!

[remaineruk]

When there's one from the UK I'll post it but in the meantime...Canadians just want you to know they are thinking about you at this moment. It's lovely

PS disagree about the USA inventing the Internet tho

[Sophiegirl]

1. Internet background

Courtesy History.com

The first workable prototype of the Internet came in the late 1960s with the creation of ARPANET, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. Originally funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, ARPANET used packet switching to allow multiple computers to communicate on a single network. The technology continued to grow in the 1970s after scientists Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf developed Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol, or TCP/IP, a communications model that set standards for how data could be transmitted between multiple networks. ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet. The online world then took on a more recognizable form in 1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. While it’s often confused with the Internet itself, the web is actually just the most common means of accessing data online in the form of websites and hyperlinks.

http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/who-invented-the-internet

[forgotmylogin]

3. AWwwwww.

Right back at you Canada. Land of Mounties and Hockey and Healthcare and Most of our Movie Production!

Oh, and poutine. Why hasn't it caught on here?

[morningglory]

5. Thank you, sweet Canucks! nt

[treestar]

6. Kept waiting for some kind of punchline

but it was only an indirect shot at the Deplorable One. Very sweet!