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1. shaolinspirit · 1790679601 · focus · HN ↗

   this is a joke I may sound salty, but the only innovations I see coming from Europe are plastic bottle recycling and fining American companies for GDPR violations.

   1. kriro · 1790687109 · focus · HN ↗

      Seems pretty ignorant. If you take a historic perspective, the WWW and things like HTML, HTTP, URLs etc. are technically from a British guy working in Switzerland (CERN) but I suppose crediting it to any country is kind of pointless. These days a lot of it runs on machines that run on a Linux kernel, also technically from Europe. Python/C++/PHP/Erlang/Prolog/Pascal and many others I'm probably forgetting on the programming language front.

      If you're talking about current VC-backed hyper accelerators...there's probably also plenty. I think there's also a lot going on in the non-IT sectors (medicine, pharma, genetics, energy etc.)

      But the bigger question is...does it really matter which country innovation comes from these days? As an end-user/customer I certainly don't care too much.

      1. philipallstar · 1790692252 · focus · HN ↗

         > the WWW and things like HTML, HTTP, URLs etc. are technically from a British guy working in Switzerland (CERN) but I suppose crediting it to any country is kind of pointless

         A postdoc at CERN coming up with a text format isn't quite the same as what is invented elsewhere, though.

         > These days a lot of it runs on machines that run on a Linux kernel, also technically from Europe

         True, although much of the development is funded by American companies, who give their work away.

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