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This seems to be a list of things that Europe used to have. Here's some counterpoints that you might be thinking of: The most popular form of UNIX (Linux) got
by theandrewbailey 6y ago
This seems to be a list of things that Europe used to have. Here's some counterpoints that you might be thinking of:
The most popular form of UNIX (Linux) got started in Finland.
The best selling CPUs (ARM) are ultimately of British origin.
The Web was created by a Brit at CERN (Switzerland).
Raspberry Pis are quite popular, and British. (Also has an ARM CPU, and often runs Linux, sometimes with a web server. Nifty!)
- Kuinox 6y agoThe web ? We had minitel in France.
- twic 6y agoAnd the first microcomputer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micral I only found out about this because its inventor, André Truong, studied at EFREI at around the same time as Pol Pot. Fortunately, Truong was a much better engineer, and did something more constructive with his life.
- msla 6y agoBut not the first personal computer, which was American: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenbak-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenbak-1
- msla 6y agoMinitel wasn't really the same kind of thing as the Internet or the web.
- masswerk 6y agoHowever, arguably it was closer to where the Web seems to be going now.
- Kuinox 6y agoWhy ?
- msla 6y agoBecause Minitel was a non-extensible (effectively) service run on centralized systems, whereas the Internet is defined by a heterogeneous mix of networks all collaborating to share traffic, any one of which can provide a completely new service at will, without coordinating with anyone else and, more importantly, without asking permission.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoThat is a totally non-helpful reply. A reply that actually gave some information would be more useful.
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- AnimalMuppet 6y agoHmm. Either I replied to the wrong post, or msla edited it. As it stands now, it is quite informative.
- Kuinox 6y agoHe edited it, but it's still false. In the minitel era, everyone could host a service, you had to get specific equipements, but it was easy to get. What was centralized, was the indexation, people had to know you phone number to dial in your service.
- Kuinox 6y agoIf you replace Minitel by internet, you describe it well too.
- msla 6y ago
- pilsetnieks 6y agoAnd the other small hobbyist computing platform, Arduino, is Italian; Python was created by a Dutch programmer; PHP, the much maligned bastard language that still runs most of the web, was created by a Danish Canadian. Even from his own examples, Ada and Pascal (as in Delphi) are still widely used, though probably in limited circles.
- Insanity 6y agoTo add a few: C# / TypeScript / Turbo Pascal / Delphi: Anders Hejlsberg had a lot of influence even though C# /TS are MSFT langs, and he is Danish Haskell's GHC: _glasgow_ haskell compiler, Scotland EDIT to clarify
- rimliu 6y agoSkype: founded by a Swede and a Dane, coded by Estonians. MySQL: a Finn and a Swede.
- jjcon 6y ago> The most popular form of UNIX (Linux) got started in Finland. By a Finnish guy that moved to the US (and is a US citizen) > The best selling CPUs (ARM) are ultimately of British origin. The instruction set for the cpus originated in Britain (now japan), the cpu design is almost all based in the US (Qualcomm, Broadcom, Apple). > The Web was created by a Brit at CERN (Switzerland). The web was started by a Brit yes, the internet started long before in the US. > Raspberry Pis are quite popular, and British. True
- dvfjsdhgfv 6y ago> > The most popular form of UNIX (Linux) got started in Finland. > By a Finnish guy that moved to the US (and is a US citizen) When he moved to the USA Linux was already a popular OS, and he didn't move here in order to develop the kernel but to work for Transmeta.
- jjcon 6y ago> and he didn't move here in order to develop the kernel He moved there and started the Linux foundation... what are you talking about?