I agree. The name is really US-centrist. Not giving good vibes.

Bitch, other countries use english too. No country should have dibs on general words to represent something that conserns, in this case, only one country.

I have noticed the same thing about US government websites end in .gov I think no government should have that privledge. Other governments use english too. Could US officials take their head out of their asses and use an ending like .usgov

Well Americans did develop most of the advances and the first internet is from DARPA. Would seem to make sense that they took the .gov TLD. Can you really be upset about that?

IRC there's a museum in Paris which proudly shows all the inventions made by the French. It's worth a visit, simply because you'll likely have been taught plenty of them were American inventions. If you're a Brit, you'll have been taught many of those same inventions were British.

Jingoism and claiming inventions go hand in hand.

So if you visit a French museum and exhibit on the internet, they'd likey focus on Rémi Després, who was cited by Kahn and Cerf in their paper which IRC proposed the concept of TCP/IP. If you visit a British museum, they'll spend more time discussing Tim Berners-Lee and the world wide web. A Russian museum might mention Sary Shagan, who helped develop computer networks in the 1950s or they might mention OGAS a 1960s plan for a nationwide computer network.

It's the same for things like radio, the telephone, mobile telephones or television. Depending on who you ask, the country that invented it changes.

The reality is often more nuanced and complicated.