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Hello everybody.

Hello, everybody.

Welcome to Factually, I'm Adam Conover.

And you know, America invented the internet right? I mean we're

often pretty bragodosious as a country often unfairly so but in this case we really can take the credit for one of the most

incredible technological advancements in the history of humanity.

The basic infrastructure of the internet goes back to massive cold war investments our government

made in computer science and electronics that eventually led to the precursor of the internet,

the Arpenet, and then of course to the economic explosion we have had since. We got Silicon Valley

which nurtured all of these iconic companies, American companies, like Apple and Google.

I look I know it's called alphabet now but come on it'll always be Google in my heart.

The internet age is in effect an American age

except for the fact that America has far from the best internet.

America's internet infrastructure is far slower than it should be.

Countries like Japan, South Korea, and Denmark have far faster broadband speeds than we do,

and our internet is also way more expensive.

Most rich countries in Europe or Asia have broadband that averages just 30 something

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