Your country's greatest achievment

[DGuller]

Seriously, if we are talking about the most important technological advance/invention, I think for Americans one of the strongest candidates is the Internet.

This is an invention comparable to alphabet or the printing press.

Agreed.

[Viking]

who invented the Interweb?

[Brazen]

He said internet, not the web.

Sorry DARPA.

But let me add WWW to the Brit list then 

[Josquius]

He said internet with a small I though, not THE Internet. Who invented that is....something I shall have to look into.
Some things seem to say small i=any old network whilst big I = THE internet.
But then others say small i is the web and big I the internet...

[PDH]

Sorry DARPA.

But let me add WWW to the Brit list then 

THOSE tube Britain can be proud of

[Duque de Bragança]

The Portuguese theory hasn't been disproven yet? I thought this was only Thor Heyerdahl's fantasies

How could it be disproven?  There are virtually no late-period Norse remains in Greenland.  Until such remains are found, I don't see how you could disprove any theory about their ultimate fate.  I read The Frozen Echo a few years back about this very topic but I can't recall what her own theory on their disappearance is. 

Two words: Thor Heyerdahl 

[Viking]

Two words: Thor Heyderdahl 

Conspiracy theory originator par excellence.

[Zanza]

Turning Germany from a militaristic dictatorship into a democratic nation after WW2.

This and the peaceful revolution and reunification of 1989-90.

[MadImmortalMan]

Come on, Yanks... to put Apollo and the bomb before the Constitution (for example) is not right.

Sure it is. The big C is just some document we spend billions of man hours and vast quantities of our national resources finding ways to ignore. Apollo accomplished far more with far less.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Hockey. :canuck:

[Caliga]

Agreed.

The Internets and the Google are useful for rumors.

[Martinus]

He said internet with a small I though, not THE Internet. Who invented that is....something I shall have to look into.
Some things seem to say small i=any old network whilst big I = THE internet.
But then others say small i is the web and big I the internet...

Uhm, I said the Internet with the capital I. Do you have vision problems?

[Zanza]

The internet was invented by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, both Americans.

[PDH]

Uhm, I said the Internet with the capital I. Do you have vision problems?

Now that Tim is in forn parts, Tyr is stepping up to the plate.

[The Brain]

Sweden's greatest achievement. Hmmmmm... you're making it very hard for me.

You have maintaining a generally free and benign society for many centuries. But that has only been important to Swedes.

You have helping make science hot through the Nobel Prizes. The effect may be marginal.

You have killing a lot of Papists and Russians, but we didn't get them all.


I would have to say that, using some conventional metric and looking at something that has had and continues to have an impact all over the world:

Creating the practice of open government.