DavidDoesLemmy comments on A researcher asked 10 people to go car-free for 20 days. None wanted to continue

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.

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[–] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 1 point 5 months ago* (3 children)

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.

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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago* (2 children)

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.

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[–] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

Sure, I'll concede that it was TBL and his team at CERN. But it was not American.

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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

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[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

I'm not the person who originally made the 'mile' comment, but surely you can give grace to somebody using the unit they are most comfortable with when making a generic statement. Like if a Brit used the word "colour." We get the point.

Of course, the argument that metric units should be used everywhere has merit, but way way way above the level of an internet post.

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