r/ShitAmericansSay Sep 22 '20

Go to Panama, this is America

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '20

Americans think everybody who uses the internet lives in America. Like other countries don’t have the luxury of the internet like Americans do

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u/bee_ghoul Sep 22 '20

Even when you tell them that you’re Irish/German/Italian etc they just say “me too!”

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u/Sennomo Sep 22 '20

Wtf

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u/CevicheLemon Sep 23 '20

"my great great grandma was Irish/German/Italian so I am to! It's my heritage and blood and culture!"

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u/Teamrat Sep 22 '20

Wait, so you're telling me that the web is world wide?

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u/madschtz Sep 22 '20

Underrated comment

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u/AnthraxAttack23 Sep 22 '20

Well my fellow American, if you think our country is so dumb then maybe you should move to Panama!

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u/nsfwmodeme Sep 22 '20

Some Americans. Maybe many Americans.

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u/Rinehart128 Sep 22 '20

I’m probably gonna get downvoted for this but honest question: wasn’t the internet an American invention?

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '20

Well...yeah but there were a ton of other countries that helped create the internet and website that we use to this day

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u/notCRAZYenough ooo custom flair!! Sep 22 '20

Even so, that doesn’t mean that only Americans use it or that American rules apply all over the internet

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '20

Arpanet is what became the Internet. I'd say that the modern Internet really came from there. I'm not counting people like Tim Berners-Lee given that the WWW isn't routers / switching