In Europe?
"Mosaic was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign beginning in late 1992." -- Wikipedia
Other than Linux's European origin, Europe has not produced any viable operating system or browser. It continues to rely on key software of American origin, like the rest of the world.
The Brit Tim Berners-Lee designed the architecture, wrote the first browser and web server, and wrote the first HTML spec at CERN around 1989. Mosaic was released in like 1993 after Berners-Lee released his specs and source.
To claim the internet was invented in Europe is equally absurd.
Internet created 1983. WWW created 1989.
The internet was created by meshing many different networks together (mostly ARPANET and SFNET).
Networks which now form the backbone of the internet also existed in europe at the time, mainly in britain and france.
I like privacy, but the business person in me is very frustrated by these GDPR rulings as they make the life of European startups even harder than it already is.
I think you have a point with Lambda though I don't use serverless much. How does Knative compare?
Really? In some places in Europe, people were starting to get excited about dial-up BBSes in the mid nineties, a decade after they were on their way out in North America.
In 1994 I was doing contract work in Vancouver on a website with paying subscribers.
What is your point exactly? Half of europe was still transitioning to a market economy or in a (civil) war/conflict in the 90's.
I am also sure, that a lot of places in the US didn't have internet access in the 90's.