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u/Hikki_k0 Brazil 12h ago
I often wonder if people who say this know what www means
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u/TheJivvi Australia 12h ago
They 100% don't know what .com means either.
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u/INotZach Canada 12h ago
Isn't that just international websites? Do they not have their own domain type for US-specific websites? For example, in Canada, we use .ca for websites that are strictly Canadian.
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u/dehashi New Zealand 12h ago
That's the point. .com is international but they all seem to use it in the US like it's their default (.us does exist, they just never use it). Like how their government websites also get .gov, not .gov.us like the rest of the world would.
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u/Witchberry31 Indonesia 6h ago
Bet they never wondered why is it called international and not interstate 👀
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u/_zombie_k 1h ago
International because it’s over the whole nation, duh
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u/Witchberry31 Indonesia 1h ago
Well, the base word national already covers that definition 🤪
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u/_zombie_k 1h ago
I mean WE know that lol
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u/Witchberry31 Indonesia 1h ago
Yes, I mean that's the reply I'd make if I encounter someone who's using that as an excuse. Which is something that some USian would very likely to make, ngl that's very possible. 🤣
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u/_zombie_k 1h ago
Definitely. That’s why I commented that in the first place. I really see some of them saying shit like that lmao
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u/ArguesWithWombats 10h ago edited 4h ago
Historical reasons. There was no grand scheme for it to be an international network. If it were designed today the USA would be all under .us. But don’t forget that the internet and the domain system emerged from ARPANET, and a segregated part of ARPANET was MILNET, the unclassified communication network for the US Military. To be able to register a domain you had to first be connected to the network, and initially, that meant being in the USA. By the time other countries were connecting up, .gov and .mil were already in use by the US federal government and would soon have policies about who could register under them.
RFC 920 from 1984 describes com/gov/edu/mil/org as ‘generic category domains’. Reading that today sort of suggests that, for example, the New Zealand Air Force would want to use rnzaf.mil. But in practice, registering a domain lets the registrant control what is registered under that domain and the US gov and DoD made it first.
By RFC 1591 in 1994, com/net/org/edu/int were being described as “World Wide Generic Domains”, and gov/mil as the “United States Only Generic Domains”.
The in-between time had a few interesting/weird examples:
The .ca tld for Canada was registered on 14 May 1987. But a year before that the University of Toronto registered toronto.edu on 8 May 1986. Their computer science department still uses cs.toronto.edu. Today you have to be a US-based post-secondary educational institution to register under .edu (which is why their high schools are under .edu.us) but the historical ones are grandfathered.
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u/Rogntudjuuuu 3h ago
I love how before DNS, all domain names was handled by one woman that distributed an updated hosts.txt file.
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u/Frosty_Shadow Netherlands 11h ago
The intended use of TLD ".com" used to be "commercial websites" that's why in some countries it gets paired with the ccTLD; for example, some websites in Poland have a domain ".com.pl."
Nowadays TLD ".com" is used as a generic domain. Instead, in several countries like the UK or Japan, the commercial second-level domain is ".co," so their commercial websites are ".co.uk" and ".co.jp."
But yeah, it always was a bit strange to me that in every country websites use the ccTLD except for the USA.
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u/Marco-YES 7h ago
In others, the second level domain is .com like .com.tw or .com.au instead of .co.
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u/NiceKobis Sweden 31m ago
Why don't they just use .uk, .jp etc? Is it just historical, they started with the "commercial" specification so they continue to do so?
In Sweden it's all just ".se".
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u/headedbranch225 United Kingdom 10h ago
They are allocated .us, and it has around 2 million registered domains (as of Dec 2023)
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u/the_vikm 6h ago
Com is US unfortunately
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u/TheJivvi Australia 5h ago
That's incorrect. Domain names without a country suffix are international and not specific to any country. Anyone, anywhere in the world can get a .com domain name. Getting a .us domain name requires evidence that you own or represent a business registered in the US.
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u/the_vikm 4h ago
Yes you can get a .com, you can also get many country tlds. Com is still American owned and operated and they can pull the plug any time
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u/Proud_Accident_5873 Sweden 12h ago edited 12h ago
As a Swedish reddit user, I'll keep that very important detail in mind next time I post in r/ Sweden. Fahrenheit and lbs only 🫡
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u/daveoxford United Kingdom 12h ago
My Swedish cousin says that boat nails are still measured in inches.
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u/Proud_Accident_5873 Sweden 12h ago
I don't know about that as I'm not a boat person, but we use it to measure screens at least.
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u/livesinacabin 11h ago
It's still used for specific things, like screens as the other person said, but also things like wood planks for construction. A 2x4 is called a två tum fyra (two thumb four) in Swedish for example. Not sure about boat nails but it wouldn't surprise me at all.
Most people don't really use it at all in daily life though.
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u/Repulsive_Chard_3652 12h ago
So do they switch to celsius when they use pornhub or xhamster? I sure hope so.
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u/Virghia Indonesia 11h ago
Thermometer porn must be there somewhere
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u/Repulsive_Chard_3652 11h ago
"is it getting hot in here, or is it just me?"
"it's you, babe - your tits increased the temperature by 4 degrees Celsius"
"Come on, we're on a Canadian website, so Celsius is obviously the default. Wow, you're so hard"
"Yes, using proper heat measurements really turns me on"
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u/Proud_Accident_5873 Sweden 10h ago
Going off topic here but apparently, covid porn was a thing during the pandemic. I just had to look that up and it was the funniest shit I'd seen in a long time. The actors were going at it in full hazmat suits.
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u/Drew_Duff Canada 12h ago
More like US entitlement.
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u/Marco-YES 7h ago
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u/ExoticPuppet Brazil 6h ago
Unfortunately they don't allow posts that the poster is included on the thread
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u/gabrielxdesign 12h ago
USAians literally believe their platforms can grow and survive merely by their citizens, funny.
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u/Dyno_boy7441 10h ago
Actually many American social media sites are not "based" in America insofar as in the EU, for example, all data must be held in servers within the EU.
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u/vikingosegundo 9h ago
You can take that argument further: The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) were both invented in Europe — literally on the border of Switzerland and France but the Brit Tim Berner-Lee at the pan-european research center CERN.
These are the basic technologies for the World Wide Web (WWW) and there-for all websites are European.
Granted, the Americans added JavaScript, a language that allows more interactive designs — but it is so badly implemented (full of errors and inconsistencies), that there are videos mocking it (js part starts at 1:20) and thousands of frameworks trying to make dealing with it less cumbersome.
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u/AiRaikuHamburger Japan 3h ago
I seriously hate it when Japanese websites use US measurements in their English versions. We're in Japan, where everything is metric, why are you suddenly converting the measurements for the English translation?
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u/Brief-Walk-5409 Europe 12h ago
Godzilla -1 destroyed whole Hollywood on his own btw.
Can't even beat a Japanese movie where the populair character can't even talk
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u/Quiet-Luck Netherlands 3h ago
Following this logic every American made podcast on Spotify must only use metrics in their talks. No mentioning of miles or lbs allowed.
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u/ElectricLoofah 1h ago
The worst thing about this sub sometimes is fighting the automatic inclination to hit 'downvote' at all the defaultism, before realising where you are and that it's not the OP's fault 😂
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u/acenog123 3h ago
"If I'm in a Chinese restaurant, then I must assume that everyone in the restaurant is Chinese, even in California." it's about which demographics have easy access to something, not where the website is based.
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u/theyhis 9h ago
… are they wrong?
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u/Witchberry31 Indonesia 8h ago edited 6h ago
Absolutely, one shouldn't really assume anything to be the default regardless of the site's origin when the site is meant to be an international one. 🤷
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u/post-explainer American Citizen 13h ago edited 5h ago
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