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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Wish Windows knew that