Which I suppose makes it a worthwhile development from Europe, that's all, when you seemed to be implying that Europe had produced nothing of note in the field of computing.
You still miss the point. What I am saying is that the computer industry these days is dominated by a handful of American companies and aside from a few developments elsewhere the overwhelming proponderance of technology was developed here.
Take the world wide Web for example. Yes it was developed by an Englishman working at CERN. Then what happened ? The preponderance of Personal Computers in the US meant that it was widely adopted in a very short time throughout society and industry. By contrast in Europe it took them a couple of years to start getting with the program. The overprotective French were trying to push their "alternative" technology and tried protecting their non comptetetive computer industry. Brittain fared better but PC's were still not in general use by the population, though that has changed in the last couple of years Europe still lags behind the US in the widespread use of the internet or saturation of PC's in the general population.