Despite saving hundreds of dollars and even making new friends, none of the people who agreed to ditch their car for this Brisbane experiment wanted to go car-free permanently. This is why.
Article about an experiment from Brisbane, Australia.
The US did… develop it, it’s more the de-americanization of the internet, which itself is a noble goal sure. But while it’s a good goal to strive for, 50% of the internet is english - and of english language speakers, 23% of them are from the US. It’s probably much more useful for you to focus on promoting the use of non-US tech companies / social media / web services than to try to enforce the purity of casual language.
HTTP was developed by TBL’s team at CERN, it was not developed by “the english”. You’re actively erasing the contributions of non-american groups to the modern internet in your quest to de-americanize the internet. You’re a far bigger contributer to this problem than the person who used miles in an extremely informal way.
The name “the internet” was coined by researchers at stanford while they were defining the TCP/IP protocol, which* was then called the DoD model (IIRC the name originated in RFC 675). That said, the World Wide Web itself is a collaborative international work, and it always has been - though amusingly, TBL credits Ted Nelson (an American) with having done the critical work (developing hypertext document linking), and Ted Nelson in turn credits TBL and his team at CERN as the people who took the idea and “ran with it”.
Nobody here is attempting to assign or take away credit for the development of the WWW except you, which is honestly pretty weird. The internet was an american invention - the internet we use (gestures grandly) is the most impressive work of international collaboration in human history. Stop trying to play keepsies over it, you’re being regressive.
They weren’t using it to describe a specific measure, just to express a general sentiment - why take this one so personally?
Just trying to stop the further Americanisation of the internet.
The US did… develop it, it’s more the de-americanization of the internet, which itself is a noble goal sure. But while it’s a good goal to strive for, 50% of the internet is english - and of english language speakers, 23% of them are from the US. It’s probably much more useful for you to focus on promoting the use of non-US tech companies / social media / web services than to try to enforce the purity of casual language.
The “internet”, yes. But the web, http, etc was all invented by the English. You guys can claim email if you want.
I’m on a non-US instance of Lemmy on a post about a non US city.
HTTP was developed by TBL’s team at CERN, it was not developed by “the english”. You’re actively erasing the contributions of non-american groups to the modern internet in your quest to de-americanize the internet. You’re a far bigger contributer to this problem than the person who used miles in an extremely informal way.
Sure, I’ll concede that it was TBL and his team at CERN. But it was not American.
And I never once claimed that it singularly was.
The name “the internet” was coined by researchers at stanford while they were defining the TCP/IP protocol, which* was then called the DoD model (IIRC the name originated in RFC 675). That said, the World Wide Web itself is a collaborative international work, and it always has been - though amusingly, TBL credits Ted Nelson (an American) with having done the critical work (developing hypertext document linking), and Ted Nelson in turn credits TBL and his team at CERN as the people who took the idea and “ran with it”.
Nobody here is attempting to assign or take away credit for the development of the WWW except you, which is honestly pretty weird. The internet was an american invention - the internet we use (gestures grandly) is the most impressive work of international collaboration in human history. Stop trying to play keepsies over it, you’re being regressive.