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  • From: "Alan MacHett" <machett AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [internetworkers] Structure: Language and the WWW
  • Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 10:35:01 -0500 (EST)

English predominates the structures of the Internet, having originated in
the US. For instance, URLs read left to right: server.domain.tld,
www.ibiblio.org

But then things get screwy at the directory level:
www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers
Shouldn't it be, according to logic or English rules,:
internetworkers/www.ibiblio.org ?
And wouldn't it have made more sense to forego English, perhaps using the
style of European dates ... a descending logical order:
org.ibiblio.www/internetworkers ?

just pondering...
Alan





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