I purposely did not mention the "inventors" of these 3 random tidbits because, guess what? It's not that much important because invention is an iterative process and nationalism should not have any part in it. Don't be glad <country> invented <thing> because they usually didn't, and it was a collective progress made on top of something else.
However, the life of Tim Berners Lee is very interesting, the maths of Pouzin are cool and Kao got a Nobel Prize in physics...
Meaning Charles Kao? A Hong Kong citizen working in Britain for a British subsidiary of an American company.
His family fled communist China, Kao probably wouldn't want his work attributed to that country.
It also sort of matches my point: nationalities of inventions are, at best, flexible (and shouldn't be used, really).
The CCP would likely be adamant that fiber optics are a CN invention. Your remark would likely point to fiber optics as a UK one...
I'm glad most of the early Internet technologies emerged out of the US and not Europe.
The wild west of the Internet is what resulted in its explosive growth and widened opportunities for many.
If it were up to Europe, we'd probably have needed a degree and a license to become a webmaster.