Comment on The US population only accounts for 4.2% of the world.
efstajas@lemmy.world 5 days agoMany networking foundations originated in the US, but what we’d think of as “the Internet” today was invented in Switzerland by a British man.
Comment on The US population only accounts for 4.2% of the world.
efstajas@lemmy.world 5 days agoMany networking foundations originated in the US, but what we’d think of as “the Internet” today was invented in Switzerland by a British man.
sxan@midwest.social 5 days ago
I wager you’d be right, but most people are wrong.
I’m saying that everything is built on foundations that are fundamentally English and American, and this influenced even Berners-Lees’s creation. HTTP and HTML were fundamentally ASCII. DNS and the WWW eventually evolved broader encoding support, but it’s clearly tacked-on and awkward. All you need to do is look at URL encoding rules as proof.
I’m not saying it’s right; I’m just saying there consequences of an English, American-centric design of what underlies all computer technology today is evident at all higher levels, no matter how hard we try to mask them.