It isn't anglocentrism. It is that English is the language of science and diplomacy. If this whole crazy thing had started in the 18th or 19th centuries it woul

It isn't anglocentrism. It is that English is the language of science and diplomacy. If this whole crazy thing had started in the 18th or 19th centuries it would have been in French or German. If you want to communicate to the world in scientific literature, you publish in English. I think that this spilled over into technology for obvious reasons. You can argue owe the merits of this, but having a common lingua Franca (if you will) was important to bootstrap the Internet. Now that it is more commonplace, it is important to support more languages. But if we had started out supporting everything, it might not have gained traction. Or it would have balkanized and been multiple networks separated by language. (which is what we might get anyway)