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• blueskin_ 12y ago
  It's just my rough mental approximation of how many times such a situation has already happened (even if Usenet is to all intents and purposes dying/dead, it still applies to the internet as a whole). Imagine a billion people with poor to no English and no previous experience of concepts even similar to the internet all gaining access at once.
  • sp332 12y ago
    Well, you don't have to know English to use the Internet.
  • freehunter 12y ago
    If people who don't speak English get onto the Internet in droves, I would imagine they would flock to sites catering to their language, until the point where they learn enough English to join the English speaking parts (assuming they have interest in learning English, which they may not). The Internet does have sites dedicated to other languages. I frequent reddit.com/r/de, which is reddit but completely in German.
    • GFischer 12y ago
      I agree, but they probably won't go to Reddit :) In Argentina and Uruguay we have some local communities, such as Taringa! (spanish-language community) There's probably one or several equivalents in the locals' language :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taringa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taringa! See also: http://www.wired.com/2012/02/st_internetoutliers/ http://www.wired.com/2012/02/st_internetoutliers/ And, it is a pretty interesting opportunity for Indian entrepreneurs :) (and Indonesians, Pakistanis, etc :) ). Edit: what would be the Indian, Pakistani, Indonesian equivalents of those sites?
  • shk 12y ago
    What other interesting times do you refer to other than the actual one?