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Speaking of alphabet encodings, I've had a (totally unscientific) pet theory that the development of the computer would have been much slower if computers were
by yen223 12y ago
Speaking of alphabet encodings, I've had a (totally unscientific) pet theory that the development of the computer would have been much slower if computers were invented in the Chinese-speaking world, because they would need to invent 16-bit character encoding before text processing became practical.
- faitswulff 12y agoWell, that was definitely one reason that the printing press wasn't as revolutionary a technology in China as it was in the West, despite its being invented there.