On The Fly

In this episode, Web Addresses . . . Have you ever wondered why internet web addresses are in English? While poking around on the web, we discovered a riveting segment (if you're a Geek) from  howstuffwork.com  to tickle your RAM (Random Access Memory). Ok - "Why are internet web addresses in English?" The short answer: Web addresses are in English because the people who developed the standards for web addresses were, for the most part, English-speaking Americans. Are you ready for a longer answer? In the early days of the internet, the only way to connect to a remote computer was to know its unique Internet Protocol or  IP address , a long string of unique digits such as 165.254.202.218. But in 1983, as the number of computers on the network continued to grow, the University of Wisconsin developed the  Domain Name System (DNS) , which maps numeric IP addresses to more easily remembered domain names like google.com . In 1990, according to the Computer History Museum,...