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@Velocio
Revisionist history is easy, anyone can play that game.
Like many great inventions most of this stuff was invented by several people around the world, independently at the same time. Because smart people tend to have similar ideas given similar inputs (what has come before).
That we invented the computer wasn't known to others because it was a national secret, and then someone else also invented the same thing.
So being first is kinda irrelevant... many people were on the same path.
This is where credit should be given to the real people who broke ground like Turing. He really did do something no-one else considered in his definition of logic. He was the shoulders upon which those who "invented" the computer stood on.
And frankly, the web was an obvious thing. Basic versions of hyperlinks had already been designed. TBL is wonderful and deserves credit, but only for adding embeddable images into documents.... but again, does anyone think this is truly inventive?
Not knocking achievements, or giving them to anyone else... but most of these things are collaborative things and are only possible because of what came before.
The only reason we have to put TBL front and centre is because of US propaganda (and it is propaganda) trying to make claims which are unfounded. Even the core concept of routable telephony had been invented before ARPANET started their work, and even though ARPA get the claim there were multiple independent bodies working on packet switching over self-healing routable networks at the same time.
The internet and web were not invented by any one individual or any one country. Science is a result of collaboration.
Rant of the day.