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2013-02-05 12:56 31276191 Anonymous (4ad2882b-00b5-4bfa-bc62-2c7d7d459395.jpg 650x331 71kB)
Can somebody explain why America has such a stronghold on the internet
It seems that most of the websites that everybody goes on - to the most popular to the most obscure - are American
Most of the notable people on the internet that you follow and enjoy are American
Most of the memes on the internet are done by Americans as well
and I'm wondering why this is.
Take Mega64 for example
httpwww.youtube.comwatchv=71DIStv4M PA
A popular comedy group on youtube and their nationality is - you guessed it - American
Again, why is this It seems like 90% of the stuff you watch, read, and go to are American influenced
5 min later 31276308 Anonymous
Say what you want about the US, but fuck do they have style. People always talk shit, but quite frankly I dont think Ive ever seen a country as good at showmanship and looking good. I suspect this why American shit is the most popular, it usually looks really nice (think; google, facebook, youtube, apple, etc, etc).
5 min later 31276321 Anonymous
>>31276308
Also, I'm not American
31 min later 31276818 Anonymous
Because we do the most business and we do it the best.
Because we have developed into a nation full of extroverts and reward action.
Because we have the most influence in nearly every industry, most notable things like music.
32 min later 31276844 Anonymous
>Can somebody explain why America has such a stronghold on the internet
Because we invented it
33 min later 31276875 Anonymous
because america is the biggest culturally enriched country ever. go from new york to texas, and it's like you've visited an entirely other country. i took a road trip (i'm canadian) all the way down to texas, and it was amazing
34 min later 31276899 Anonymous
Americans were here first. English being the lingua franca of the Internet also helps.
34 min later 31276908 Anonymous
>>31276844
> America invented the internet
> not Britain
lel
35 min later 31276930 Anonymous
diversity
population size
wealth
only remaining superpower
globalization
like it or not, we're the big hams right now
35 min later 31276939 Anonymous
Yuropoors can't even cut power at major sport events with American grace and glam
36 min later 31276949 Anonymous (gummiworm2.jpg 341x304 29kB)
The world pretends to hate the smooth talking douche, but they all secretly want his cock.
36 min later 31276958 Anonymous
>memes
Closing the thread.
37 min later 31276968 Anonymous
Because its easier for now to let them deal with things. Once they start going all police state and deleting things then the rest of us will do something.
38 min later 31276993 Anonymous
>>31276968
>implying your country wouldn't simple follow suit is the US enacted internet censorship laws
38 min later 31277010 Anonymous (chinese-the-dominant-internet-language-1.jpg 709x669 95kB)
By a slim margin and from your point of view, the internet is will be mostly Chinese soon enough.
>he doesn't know any Chinese memes
40 min later 31277042 Anonymous
>>31277010
>hong chong chinky ngang ngang
Fuck that, english is the superior everything for everything.
40 min later 31277045 Anonymous
>>31277010
Name some good chinese websites then?
41 min later 31277055 Anonymous
>>31277010
>implying that chinknet that isn't only relevant in china
41 min later 31277073 Anonymous
>>31277010
someone needs to nuke the Chinese
they are getting too uppity
maybe we can provoke Russia to do it, they almost did once, and i doubt anyone would retaliate.
41 min later 31277076 Anonymous
>>31277010
too bad chinese can't use a chat service without fearing jail
Somehow I doubt they will ever be significant on the interwebs until that is sorted out
42 min later 31277092 Anonymous
>>31277010
Which Chinese? Kanji for text, obviously, but for audio and such, does that include all dialects, or just Mandarin, or just Mandarin and Cantonese, or what?
43 min later 31277104 Anonymous
>>31277042
lel English is an horrible convoluted
44 min later 31277120 Anonymous
>>31277010
no one can name any chinese site though. tons of people know american based sites like youtube, facebook, google, etc.
44 min later 31277121 Anonymous
the internet is driven by media, commerce, and personalties. things which other countries cannot compete with America on.
44 min later 31277124 Anonymous
>>31277104
>>31277042
Fuck them both, let's all switch to lojban.
44 min later 31277132 Anonymous
>>31277073
You seriously don't know anything. Russia and China are bigger allies than US and UK
45 min later 31277142 Anonymous
>>31277104
English doesn't require a 10k+ character font to render correctly.
45 min later 31277149 Anonymous
>>31276844
That's kind of funny. I was at a lecture given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee just yesterday.
46 min later 31277160 Anonymous
>>31277132
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino- Soviet_border_conflict
46 min later 31277177 Anonymous
>>31277132
i dont think so tim, the us and uk secretly date each other, like a white chick dating a nigger
48 min later 31277212 Anonymous
>>31277149
You know whats really funny, ucla invented the modern internet, so shut the fuck up.
49 min later 31277219 Anonymous
I wouldn't be surprised if Chinese and Japanese internets were equally huge, also somewhat Russian
49 min later 31277221 Anonymous
>>31277149
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor y_of_the_Internet
50 min later 31277254 Anonymous
>>31276844
CERN + Tim Berners-Lee invented the internet.
51 min later 31277271 Anonymous
>>31277149
Someone doesn't know what the fuck the difference between layers 1 through 6 and 7 is
51 min later 31277277 Anonymous
>>31276875
I hear everything in between is bland as hell though, nothing but chain stores
52 min later 31277290 Anonymous
>>31277160
OMG 100 people died on each side, r they alright?!?
Look at how China and Russia are tag-teaming the UN by blocking all sanctions against Syria for political allies, where 100 people die by the hour.
52 min later 31277293 Anonymous
>>31277254
That is factually incorrect.
52 min later 31277302 Anonymous
>>31277254
he invented, a internet like network. UCLA FUCKING INVENTED THE MODERN INTERNET, face it faggot, AMERICA invented the network that you spend all your time on. You might hate us, but facts are facts.
52 min later 31277304 Anonymous
>>31277092
>using "kanji" when talking about Chinese
Holy shit kill yourself you fucking weeaboo.
53 min later 31277313 Anonymous
>>31277277
it is a pretty big country and very diverse, you can certainly avoid chain stores if you take back roads and go through the country/rural areas
54 min later 31277337 Anonymous
>>31277293
>>31277302
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor y_of_the_Internet#CERN.2C_the_Europ ean_Internet.2C_the_link_to_the_Pac ific_and_beyond
Actually, it was CERN that developed the modern internet, and popularised TCP/IP.
Nice try though guys.
55 min later 31277366 Anonymous
Because even if yuropeons make anything good big American corporation will buy it up.
>tfw AT&T is considering buying the dominant ISP in my country
56 min later 31277370 Anonymous
>>31276321
you have a distorted view of the US
>LA reporting in
56 min later 31277373 Anonymous
>>31277290
yeah, UN needs to get their shit in order first
56 min later 31277377 Anonymous
>>31277219
... and brazil and indian/indochina interwebs. They really don't give a shit about twitter (the use plurk) yahoo, google, YT, or any of that "western" media.
57 min later 31277391 Anonymous
>>31277337
I have to take that back, i didnt realize that tim berners invented the world wide web for cern. america did invent arpanet though, so ucla does get some credit since it is very similar to the world wide web, al gore also passed the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991.
57 min later 31277396 Anonymous
>>31277337
Wikipedia is wrong.
57 min later 31277400 Anonymous
OP has been cross posting this on every board and is long gone now. You can't stop replying and let this shit die.
57 min later 31277404 Anonymous (1343119601477.png 175x175 23kB)
>>31277010
Chinese websites are all just knockoffs of popular American websites.
59 min later 31277459 Anonymous
It seems that way to you because you speak English, and that's a very narrow world view to have, OP.
You should travel or learn another language.
1 hours later 31277516 LEE Forgot His Tripcode
>>31277370
>>LA reporting in
I hope to be going there in June/July with my best bro. Other than to kill myself, any advice/tips for some brit tourists?
1 hours later 31277522 Anonymous
i wish we had those "rods from god" them we could kill every single russian and chinaman on the planet with no retaliation
1 hours later 31277576 Anonymous
>>31277522
wat?
1 hours later 31277600 Anonymous
>>31277576
giaant metal rods in space that impact with the force of a small asteroid
1 hours later 31277635 Anonymous
>>31277516
well, what are ya interested in seeing/doing? there's beverly hills, hollywood, santa monica, venice beach, echo park/silverlake and downtown LA and each has quite a bit to offer
1 hours later 31277698 Anonymous
>>31277635
Hookers, mainly hookers.
1 hours later 31277751 LEE Forgot His Tripcode
>>31277635
Well we kinda know what we're doing, just beaches, roaming around LA, going to some restaurants, more beaches. Oh one thing, is there any shooting ranges around LA we could visit? As brits, we're not allowed to own butter knives without several licences so some target shooting in a range would be awesome.
1 hours later 31277821 Anonymous
>>31277698
Plent of 'em here.
/conversation
1 hours later 31277889 BTC/TA990FXE
>>31277132
actually russia is strongly against china right now
1 hours later 31277915 BTC/TA990FXE
>>31277600
lolno
and its estimated to be 0.25-2KT
or about 3% of the power of the bomb dropped on hiroshima
not to mention the russian R-36 FOBS would have been a superior system
1 hours later 31277950 Anonymous
>>31277751
you're better off going to a smaller city for a shooting range
but there should be some, just walk in and rent a gun
i can't understand why you people ban guns, they are so goddamn fun to shoot
1 hours later 31277993 Anonymous
>>31277751
There are some, but they'll probably go away after the idiots in CA further restrict guns.
1 hours later 31278038 LEE Forgot His Tripcode
>>31277950
>>31277993
Thanks for the info gents, yeah, It'll be nice to do a little shooting before CA turns full UK.
1 hours later 31278056 Anonymous
>>31277516
Florida fag here.
Horrific public transportation, retarded education board, state cuts taxes while going in the red, and makes it back by cutting stuff like schools.
Old people live in closed off, hostile communities.
It's hot as fuck.
Disney promotes mindless consumerism everywhere.
Don't come here.
1 hours later 31278116 Anonymous
>>31277751
don't know about specific shooting ranges, but there are always people out in the antelope valley shooting ay cans, sofas, old tvs, etc.
1 hours later 31278124 Anonymous
>It seems that most of the websites that everybody goes on - to the most popular to the most obscure - are American
Founded in America ... by non Americans.
1 hours later 31278128 Anonymous
>>31277313
Floridian whos driven around seconding this, chains are fucking everywhere, but theres also the mom and pop shop inbetween them.
1 hours later 31278168 Anonymous
We invented the internet and networking, deal with it non-american fags
Why do you think we dont use .america or .usa domains hardly while all the other countries use shit like co.uk and .ru
1 hours later 31278200 Anonymous
>>31278168
you do
.com is american
stands for Communications of 'Murrika
1 hours later 31278244 Anonymous
>>31278200
>The domain name com is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Its name is derived from the word commercial,[1] indicating its original intended purpose for domains registered by commercial organizations.
meh it goes onto say that it was at first adminstered by the US Govt but not anymore
we still invented the internet, look up ARPAnet
1 hours later 31278255 Anonymous
Because America is the only place that actually contributes meaningfully to the World, unlike worthless Eurofags, Canadians, Aussies, BRs, gooks, ruskies, niggers, and mudslimes.
1 hours later 31278340 Anonymous
>>31278255
russia and china have also contributed a lot
but the rest of the world is pretty shit
1 hours later 31278351 Anonymous
>>31278056
It's really not that bad here
1 hours later 31278387 Anonymous
>>31278124
if you live in america you are no longer your old nationality
you are now american, glorious brother
1 hours later 31278389 Anonymous
>>31277120
Taobao
Alibaba & Aliexpress
1 hours later 31278401 Anonymous
>>31277915
lolno
more like 11.2kt the size of a tactical nuke.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kineti c_bombardment
1 hours later 31278413 Anonymous
>>31278351
Yes it is.
1 hours later 31278446 Anonymous
>>31278351
flordia is the biggest shithole ever, miami sucks, orlando is so hot its unbearable, ect ect ect.
1 hours later 31278478 Anonymous
>>31277132
Maybe back in the day when you were just a little sperm in your daddy's nut sack.
Get off the Internet kid.
1 hours later 31278523 BTC/TA990FXE
>>31278401
In the case of the system mentioned in the 2003 USAF report above, a 6.1m x 0.3m tungsten cylinder impacting at Mach 10 has a kinetic energy equivalent to approximately 11.5 tons of TNT (or 7.2 tons of dynamite). The mass of such a cylinder is itself over 8 tons, so it is clear that the practical applications of such a system are limited to those situations where its other characteristics provide a decisive advantage - a conventional bomb/warhead of similar weight to the tungsten rod, delivered by conventional means, provides similar destructive capability and is a far more practical method.
11.2KT = 11,200 Tons of TNT, the navy estimates them at 10 tons of TNT, or 0.01KT
1 hours later 31278531 Anonymous
>>31278340
Russia hasn't given shit to the world, but the Germans gave a lot when the Americunts invaded them in WWII.
1 hours later 31278536 Anonymous
>>31277277
My entire city is a basically a giant suburb with chain stores and strip malls scattered about. There are some local places, especially downtown, but they are by far the minority. Midwest btw.
1 hours later 31278558 Anonymous
>>31277073
All we need are girlfriends to outbreed them
1 hours later 31278587 Anonymous
>>31278531
first man in space
stealth technology
ground effect vehicles
zippe centrifuge (all modern plutonium generating plants use)
interlaced video
Cadaveric blood transfusion
along with millions of different weapons
1 hours later 31278591 Anonymous
>>31278558
>american women
>breading
1 hours later 31278610 Anonymous
>>31277459
>travel
>they speaking English too
1 hours later 31278612 Anonymous
>>31278591
>has never been to a trailer park
1 white woman and 15 children
half retarded and 2 shoes among all of them
1 hours later 31278635 Anonymous
>>31278587
> When the USSR was still in control.
Oh, please give me something from the 21st century.
1 hours later 31278657 Anonymous
>>31278587
>Russia
>USSR
Not good enough.
2 hours later 31278691 Anonymous
>>31278587
Stealth technology was created by the Americunts in 1958 dumbass.
Try harder?
2 hours later 31278726 Anonymous
>>31278587
All things Russia didn't share or didn't master/improve upon
Face it man, Russia hasn't given shit to the world. At least in a loooooooong time
The only countries that are doing shit on a international scale are America, China, Korea and BP
And that last one is going through scandals after scandals and is a company
2 hours later 31278728 Anonymous
>>31278635
kiloton range fuel air bombs
and tons of other weapons
along with a lot of firewall and antivirus software for some reason
and a few operating systems
>>31278691
see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_ Ufimtsev
2 hours later 31278758 Anonymous
>>31278728
>kiloton range fuel air bombs
>and tons of other weapons
>Given back to the world
Why are weapons of mass destruction considered "giving back"?
2 hours later 31278795 Anonymous (1357337609489.jpg 700x743 58kB)
>>31278758
What else would you want?
>inb4 food, water, love, blahblahblah
That's why we use our WMDs to kill people who have those things and take them.
2 hours later 31278851 Anonymous
Because no matter how fat you call us, no matter what you say or do, no matter how many times you bitch to the UN, we run this shit.
This is our house.
Get the fuck used to it, faggot.
2 hours later 31278896 Anonymous
>>31277149
How the fuck did you even find the technology board?
2 hours later 31279087 Anonymous
>>31278728
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealt h_technology
Talking about invented, not who wrote a book about it first.
Might as well say da vinci was the inventor of tanks. Why? Well, he wrote about it, he must be the inventor.
Great logic there faggot.
2 hours later 31279146 Anonymous
>>31279087
keep grasping at straws
2 hours later 31279168 Anonymous
jews
2 hours later 31279246 Anonymous
>>31279146
Being proven you are an idiot stings doesn't it?
2 hours later 31279390 Anonymous
>>31279246
seems you are talking to the wrong person
2 hours later 31279449 Anonymous
>>31279390
Seems as if you're to arrogant to realize your own stupidity.
2 hours later 31279455 Anonymous
>america owns 99% of the internet
>america invented the internet
>americans have worse internet infrastructure than uganda
>mfw .9 Mbps download speed
2 hours later 31279470 Anonymous
>>31279455
america also has more blacks than uganda
2 hours later 31279510 Anonymous
>>31279455
Worst infrastructure or you live in bumfuck country land?
I think it's the latter
2 hours later 31279533 Anonymous
>>31279455
oh what glorious things america has given us from the internet
like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTN ANCR3uBs
2 hours later 31279575 Anonymous
>>31279455
Actually my net is 12 mb/s for $30 a month.
I actually get 12 mb/s.
2 hours later 31279634 BTC/TA990FXE (image.jpg 300x57 3kB)
>>31279510
not who you were replying to but
ironically i just moved from the suburbs to bumfuck nowhere and went from 768/128K to 50/10Mb/s
also lol capttcha
2 hours later 31279701 Anonymous (my beach.jpg 2048x1536 1067kB)
>>31278351
seconded. I live in a small town on the east coast and life is great.
my town is mostly a snowbird city half of the year. Other than that my town is pretty nice.
2 hours later 31279744 Anonymous (2486723892.png 300x135 32kB)
>>31279455
> mfw .9 Mbps download speed
Weird, seem to be getting 40x that.
2 hours later 31279756 Anonymous didn't read the thread
>>31276191
diversity breeds ingenuity. Or at least that's what I choose to believe.
2 hours later 31279807 BTC/TA990FXE (2486729321.png 300x135 32kB)
>>31279744
charter master race
2 hours later 31279823 Anonymous
>>31279744
>>31279807
Shit upload, not even 100 Mb/s down
>master race
3 hours later 31279833 Anonymous
>>31279744
How much do you pay?
3 hours later 31279864 Anonymous
>>31279823
> 100 mb/s
You actually think you get that speed. HA!
Go torrent something and I bet you'll get 1 - 4 MB/s.
My VPS has a 1 GB connection and can only reach 6 MB/s when torrenting.
lrn2internet
3 hours later 31279880 BTC/TA990FXE
>>31279833
not him but same service and $39 a month for that and cable
3 hours later 31279890 Anonymous (2486733605.png 300x135 32kB)
I don't even think there any ISP's near me faster than this
it's embarrassing
3 hours later 31279894 Anonymous
>>31279880
I'm paying $25.
3 hours later 31279917 Anonymous
>>31279890
I guess your ISP is appropriately named, then.
3 hours later 31279939 BTC/TA990FXE
>>31279890
>new york
oh god what a shitty place to live
3 hours later 31279995 Anonymous
>>31276191
Because you're accessing the internet from america using an american search engine that gives you english results.
If you lived in china, japan etc, the websites that 'everyone' went on would be different.
3 hours later 31280032 Anonymous
>>31279939
I live in new jersey
3 hours later 31280051 Anonymous
>>31280032
I'm so sorry.
3 hours later 31280061 Anonymous
>>31280032
I'm so sorry
3 hours later 31280081 Anonymous
>>31280051
>>31280061
its not that bad, it's just boring, too many fucking farms and woods, and too goddamn expensive
3 hours later 31280099 Anonymous
>>31276191
>Take Mega64 for example
>Mega64: GDC 2010 COMMERCIAL #2
Fuck off with your viral advertizing.
3 hours later 31280140 BTC/TA990FXE
>>31280081
thats even worse than NY
horrible laws, shitty taxes, and shitty people
3 hours later 31280149 Anonymous
>>31280140
Sounds like California.
3 hours later 31280177 Anonymous
>>31280149
new jersey is exactly like California
just colder
3 hours later 31280340 Anonymous
>>31280140
new york has too many mountains, lolnocellservice there
3 hours later 31280489 Anonymous (2486772348.png 300x135 31kB)
Fucking Chicagoland, man. Atleast it goes up into the high 20s for d/l in the middle of the night.
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