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In a rational world, it should be gov.us, but well.
by 29athrowaway 2y ago
In a rational world, it should be gov.us, but well.
- ronsor 2y agoIt's just .gov because the US invented the Internet.
- jbaber 2y agoSame reason the country code for dialing the US is 1.
- mathsmath 2y agoThe US didn’t “invent” the internet. It did play a pivotal role in its development, but CERN also was there at the beginning! The US arguably just deployed it widely first.
- hollerith 2y agoYou are confusing the internet, which became operational in 1969, with the web, introduced in 1990. The US Government (specifically DARPA) started funding research into packet-switched networks in 1960, and funding by the USG for the internet continued uninterrupted until it was clear that the internet no longer needed outside funding in 1992 or 1993. Internet email dates back to 1972. Multiplayer online games began on the internet in 1979 (but they were text-only). Richard Stallman started using the internet to distribute free software in 1984. Just to defend myself from the pedants out there: it was not called the internet till 1983. Before then the name alternated between ARPAnet and DARPAnet, but the userbase remained mostly the same across the transition to the name "Internet", and email, multiplayer games and other services (FTP, telnet) continued with only minor interruptions.
- backwardsmoo 2y agoThat's not necessarily true. I think this speaks to how American Exceptionalism (often observed in US defaultism on the web) is a problem.
- callalex 2y agoNot being sure that your brand new invention will even be useful, and therefore not bothering to think about international politics while inventing packet switched networking is now “American exceptionalism”? That’s just absurd.