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bbqroast t1_iuhk0dx wrote

Reply to comment by Susurrus03 in ELI5: English is spoken by nearly 10 billion people worldwide. How did this language become so widely used throughout many countries where English isn’t the official language? by ReesMedia

France actually did a lot of work on the early internet too and even had their own network parallel to the internet.

I suspect English was just more cemented by that point, and possibly the fact France was a fair bit poorer in the 1980s than the US slowed the uptake of consumer digital electronics (and thus content creation on the internet).

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