> It’s a Google naming convention. i18n was coined by Digital Equipment Corporation in the 1970s or 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_a

> It’s a Google naming convention. i18n was coined by Digital Equipment Corporation in the 1970s or 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_local... https://www.accessibility.com/glossary/a11y https://www.accessibility.com/glossary/a11y claims that this was initially a joke, which explains a lot.