Please rename this community or change the subject
Please rename this community or change the subject
This is another example of US centrism.
This is politics@lemmy.WORLD.
From the name there is no indication that this wouldn't be about world politics.
Please rename the community or change the subject to world politics and create a community like uspolitics@lemmy.world.
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I agree. The name is really US-centrist. Not giving good vibes.
Bitch, other countries use english too. No country should have dibs on general words to represent something that conserns, in this case, only one country.
I have noticed the same thing about US government websites end in .gov I think no government should have that privledge. Other governments use english too. Could US officials take their head out of their asses and use an ending like .usgov
Well Americans did develop most of the advances and the first internet is from DARPA. Would seem to make sense that they took the .gov TLD. I doubt they even knew how popular it would become. Can you really be upset about that?
Also please look at this link on the TLD and noticed it was established in 1985 and administered by the US itself.
IRC there's a museum in Paris which proudly shows all the inventions made by the French. It's worth a visit, simply because you'll likely have been taught plenty of them were American inventions. If you're a Brit, you'll have been taught many of those same inventions were British.
Jingoism and claiming inventions go hand in hand.
So if you visit a French museum and exhibit on the internet, they'd likey focus on Rémi Després, who was cited by Kahn and Cerf in their paper which IRC proposed the concept of TCP/IP. If you visit a British museum, they'll spend more time discussing Tim Berners-Lee and the world wide web. A Russian museum might mention Sary Shagan, who helped develop computer networks in the 1950s or they might mention OGAS a 1960s plan for a nationwide computer network.
It's the same for things like radio, the telephone, mobile telephones or television. Depending on who you ask, the country that invented it changes.
The reality is often more nuanced and complicated.
Great work on following up with examples, very informative.
It is doubtful that any meaningful research can be attested to a single country since globalisation. Every technological marvel you see is the result of international research collaborations from dozens of universities, institutes and corporations around the world. It's very egocentric to assume that the U.S. is the only or the dominant motor of innovation.
I don’t disagree with you, but it doesn’t negate that the first “Internet” was a US military project which was then taken over by predominately US universities and they created the TLD in 1985 before another country did.
Or .gov.us, like every other country uses their tld, like .gov.uk. Only the US is conceited enough to not use their own tld.
It looks like you do get first dibs on shizzle you invent. The UK is the only country that does not put the name of the country on their postage stamps, because when they started using them there was no other issuer.