Were coffee, zippers (invented in the USA according to Wikipedia), electric guitars and the Internet invented in Switzerland?

I feel stupid🙁 I feel stupid because the internet contradicts me. I need to know, otherwise I won't be able to sleep.





by opijkkk

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  2. The World Wide Web was invented at CERN, but not the internet. The internet was largely developed by the US Government, back when they could actually do stuff.

  3. yes internet is true don’t know about the others

  5. Internet (as in the websites you can visit using your browser) was created in CERN, which is located for the most part in Switzerland but is still the Centre EUROPÉEN de Recherche Nucléaire

  6. The “first”electric guitar was invented in the US by two people, one of whom was born in Switzerland and left when he was basically a toddler

  7. Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, it‘s not a source.

    Check out different articles in English and in German and you‘ll notice that they differ quite a bit.

    Truth is many things are hard to classify as „invented in X“ since most inventions are evolutions of prior inventions so where is the line?

    Internet for example, there was ARPANET developed in the US, MINITEL in France or the WWW in Cern. This video obviously goes by the invention of the WWW and the first public reachable domain being .ch. The Americans would go by ARPANET being the first internet and thus an American invention. It‘s just propaganda in the end.

    As for the Zipper question…

    https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rei%C3%9Fverschluss

    Several people (including Americans) seem to have invented a zipper-like product that never really saw production.

    It was a Swiss guy that bought a patent and developed it into what is essentially today‘s zipper.

    So yeah, it‘s just a matter of what step of the production you see as the invention of todays product: the precursor that never saw production but was obviously the idea and motivation behind todays product, or the actual product that still gets sold today?

  9. Coffee was invented in Ethiopia and brought to Europe by Arab traders. Hence name Coffee – “Qahwa” in Arabic.

  11. They also invented holes in cheese and industrialized medicine.

  13. Embarrassing shows were also invented in Switzerland 😉

  14. They forget to mention Aromat! My Dutch grandfather could not eat his meal without it.

  15. Imagine the faces of greeks when they said they invented democracy 🙃🫠

  17. Well Imas a software engineer I can confirm that the internet was indeed made in Switzerland but I don’t know about the rest

  18. Coffee comes from Ethiopia and Yemen, and came by crusaders and Venitian merchants through trade with the middle east.

    For instant coffee the first to patent it is David Strang from New-Zealand in 1890. Nestlé mass commercialized it since 1938

    Zipper from US, but Velcro/Scratch in Switzerland.

    But it is Eurovision man, at this leve better of brainrot watch Skibidi toilet it is more instructive.

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