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[Mike Meredith]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 10:10:11 -0400 (EDT), Mouse wrote: 
> Certainly.  It also omits some characters used in the USA in the days
> before everything got smushed into compatability with computers.

Or even stuff invented after computers such as the interrobang or irony
mark (both before and after). 

> > So this is just good old American exceptionalism.  
> 
> It is.  There are a lot of legacy issues deriving from the USA being
> where much of computing got its start.  They aren't all linguistic

Even that might be construed as good old American exceptionalism :) 

For example, the earliest qualification in computer science is often
stated to be Purdue University's degree programme beginning in 1962.
Neglecting Cambridge University's postgraduate programme that started
in 1953.

In terms of WANs, the Internets's killer feature was routing which
eventually killed off other networks, but there were others before it
(although not before ARPANET). Even packet switching which although
invented in the US wasn't popular until it was popularised by Donald
Davies at the UK's National Physics Laboratory. ARPANET credited Donald
for the concept of packet switching - it's not true that ARPANET
wouldn't exist without a Welshman, but it's entirely possible that it
wouldn't have succeeded without a Welshman.  

> '80s I met plain-text terminals that displayed 0x5f as a
> left-pointing arrow - today that's universally underscore.  I'm sure

ASCII 1963. It might also have ^ as an up arrow (also ASCII 1963).
There was a massive shitstorm at the time over whether the arrows
should be incldued or not; the Algol proponents preferred the arrow of
course. 

-- 
Mike Meredith (http://zonky.org/)
  No security outfit ever went broke relying on the stupidity of users.