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Annoying Irish People copying americans!!
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Zapa had the hit with ' The valley girl ' back in the 80s which was then a new a phenonom.0 -
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Many places were French was ( is) the main spoken language ie, French Indochina, Canada, Africa , parts of Europe . That was a statistic I got from some time ago ,perhaps when like the English , the French were putting themselfs about the world but perhaps also an overexaduration.Maybe I'm not doing the math(s) right but when was French ever the most spoken language in the western world?
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The internet wasn't invented by any one person. But yes Americans did play a prominent role in it's development. It would be absurd to pretend otherwise.
History timeline
Also CERN was not the first to "use the internet." NASA, USENET, CSnet, and Milnet among others used TCP/IP well before CERN.
Exactly, the USA created the internet in the US, and the US Military first created the predecessor to the Internet, often referred to as DARPANet(http://www.inetdaemon.com/tutorials/internet/history.shtml).
The US military and intelligence agencies wanted a real time sharing information network that spanned the country, and perhaps it's allies, yet was not centralized so as to be easy to disable by sabotage or attack - especially by the new nuclear threat. Thus, the routing networks and packet parsing protocols we use nowadays are rooted deeply in DARPA and ARPA research and application almost half a century ago.
Eventually those government agencies expanded to include educational facilities. I was using the internet back in 1988 in college. The figures on that BBC web page are completely incorrect - I was only one of thousands of students at my local University using the Internet. EVERY US university in 1988 had internet access, which is how we shared information between them. By 1991 I was playing games on the Internet that has thousands of players frmo other Universities - named MUD(like Epic at MIT and Eltanin at Cal tech ). MUDs were amongst the first non-government specific agencies to have web pages. However, unless you were familiar with unix or IBM vm/s or DEC's VMS operating systems, you didn't do much with it since it was primarily accessed via a computer monitor and a non-graphical interface.
In 1993, I was in a Laboratory in San Jose State University, California when a coed from Germany showed me something magical - Mosaic( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser) ). Now, for the first time in history, ANYONE whom could operate a mouse could navigate the internet. Granted, at that time it still was mainly research, government, and educational systems that used it. Soon after, the US government made laws that allowed private companies to install network access points(NAPs) for use by the general public. NASA Ames(where I did some research for Sun Microsystems in my youth) had already installed a few NAPS/FIX(federal Internet Exchanges) previous to these new laws. The registration of Domain Names for internet use (boards.ie - for example) has been handled mainly by Network Solutions, LLC since it's in 1979(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Solutions), and after the commercial release of internet access was joined by Netnames in 1996 and ICAAN in 1998(by federal law).
That's a totally short history of it, duders. You can follow the links on the internet if ya want to learn about the internet, fer sure
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Hi Folks - lighten up.
Sorry that introduction was probably an Americanism. We've been adopting American slang and terminology for generations. Just look up a good dictionary to see how many everyday words originated in the USA.
People were complaining about the corrupting effects of Hollywood and Jazz back in the 20's and 30's of the last century. Then 'twas Rock'n'Roll in the fifties. We've been picking up American slang from the introduction of TV in the sixties. Then there were the American inspired showbands with such Gaelic titles as the Miami, the Nevada, and the Indians.
Most Irish entertainers sing with a faux-American accent - this is nothing new.
Who was the bright spark on this thread that came up with the observation that Americans have no culture. Wha? Most popular culture in the western originates in the USA.
Music - gospel music, Ragtime, Jazz, Country & Western, Blues, Broadway musicals, contemporary folk.
Literature, Robert Frost, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Tennesee Williams, Eugene O'Neill etc. etc.
Hollywood - westerns, ganster movies, chic-fliks.
Food: fast food joints
May not be haute cuisine - but we copy the American styles.
No American culture - huh!
I don't particularly like the way we slavishly ape everything American, good and bad, but it 'aint' nothing new.
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Maybe I'm not doing the math(s) right but when was French ever the most spoken language in the western world?
Well in Europe it was the most common second language for a few centuries when it was the language of diplomacy. French literature was once very popular among the educated classes in Europe. It was spoken widely by many of the Russian aristocracy and intelligentsia in preferance to their native language.0 -
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