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submitted 1 year ago by RothyBuyak@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Relevant xkcd:

[–] jxk@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be fair, UTF-8 did win the character encoding wars. Kudos to the Unicode designers I guess.

[–] Xanvial@lemmy.one 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

USB also won the cable data war. The 2000s era cables is wild

[–] thesanewriter@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, given enough time sometimes one of the standards will win and kill the others, it kinda just depends (in part on luck)

[–] Harlehatschi@vlemmy.net 6 points 1 year ago

Wish Windows knew that