The Guardian reports that “at a United Nations meeting last month, a bespectacled Swede made a small, barely noticed announcement that nevertheless represented a pivotal moment in the history of the internet.”Regarding the technical implementation for the world wide web, we are done,” Patrik F√§ltstr√∂m told the Internet Governance Forum. By “we are done”, he meant that following a decade of hard work by a global consortium of engineers and linguists, they had finally decided on a document that will enable all the world’s languages to be fully represented on the internet. People will be able to type in addresses in their own language, search in their own language and move around the internet in their own language”.

How engineers tamed the internet’s Tower of Babel

The Guardian reports that “at a United Nations meeting last month, a bespectacled Swede made a small, barely noticed announcement that nevertheless represented a pivotal moment in the history of the internet.”Regarding the technical implementation for the world wide web, we are done,” Patrik F√§ltstr√∂m told the Internet Governance Forum. By “we are done”, he [...]