You don't get it. If Bell did not come up with the basic foundation, you wouldnt have the ability to have any different sets of numbers. Plus, analogies go only so far. The way the internet works, we have root servers. They have to be situated somewhere. In this case, they are situated in the US where the base technology was invented. DNS does NOT work without TCP/IP. TCP/IP works without DNS.

As for where the CRT was made, yea, everyone can go look it up at good ole wikipedia. But in your fervor you seem to have missed the big "if" and that I was making a hypothetical to demonstrate a point. Where the CRT was actually developed totally is not the point.

For some reason the editors cut this part of my question out...All of which makes me wonder, do evangelical users and press help or hurt the popularity of a platform? Did the iPod become successful because of or because of a lack of evangelizing and is a backlash from Apple becoming a bit too much of a "cool" and "think" dictator coming from people seeing it as hypocritical to it's think different market image ?