Investor’s Daily poll results (23 September 2026)

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Which country invented the World Wide Web?

A - United States 218 votes (21.5%)
B - Britain 554 votes (54.7%)
C - Switzerland 131 votes (12.9%)
D - Japan 109 votes (10.8%)

Total votes: 1,012

Answer: B — Britain

Explanation: British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN in Switzerland. That last detail makes Switzerland a particularly good distractor — and the US feels plausible because American companies went on to dominate so much of the commercial web.

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