For example the Government of Canada is gc.ca the government of the uk is gov.uk the government of Australia is gov.au and using the internationally agreed address protocol the US should be .gov.us but in the US they just use .gov. Similarily for commercial sites, e.g. bbc.co.uk but in the US it is cnn.com instead of the proper protocol of cnn.co.us. It seems as in many areas the US just ignore the international rules and feel they are above everyone else.
2006-10-31 12:31:03 · 8 answers · asked by ohnogruffalo 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
To the ignoramuses amongst you, the internet was invented by the british.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6108578.stm
Idiots
2006-11-02 02:08:56 · update #1
Personally I agree with you, and I look with disgust at the arrogant US bastards who say it is ours and screw you even though we sign an agreement we can do whatever the hell we like. Has echoes of Geneva to me, don't torture us that is against the law but we can torture you.
2006-10-31 13:32:34 · answer #1 · answered by PolarCeltic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The US invented the internet, other countries are merely guests. Same thing with country calling code, our code is 1 eg, 1-800 because we were the first country to use it.
I'd say that it's arrogant for people to get angry of the US using the internet as it wants to, while other countries are merely guests and had no part in the initial development.
2006-10-31 20:35:27 · answer #2 · answered by camzakcamzak 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No...
The US started the Interent..
Besides that , no one else has a problem with it..
Are you the self appointed complaint representative for the world ?
Lets hear some complaints about ongoing slavery in Africa....
Isn't that more important than the letters on the domain names on
the internet ? What kind of official whiner are you ?
Whine about something important...
2006-10-31 20:44:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's probably becasue the Internet was founded in the good ol' US of A! At the time there was no other country using it but ours.
And we are arrogant cause we have the biggest Nukes!
2006-10-31 20:36:32 · answer #4 · answered by tapc101 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just happened that the Internet originated here in our country, we don't need any code, it's ours, everybody else has to come here and ask for their codes and pay us to use it, we don't ignore any rules, we own the Internet...
2006-10-31 20:48:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quite the opposite. I suspect that these other countries are happy to affix their own codes to domain names.
2006-10-31 20:38:44 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The U.S. invented the Internets. We'll go to the Google if we want to.
2006-10-31 20:35:30 · answer #7 · answered by Cybeq 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. What difference does it make.
2006-10-31 20:33:53 · answer #8 · answered by Darby 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋