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Web Addresses: Not Just For Whitey Anymore

Web Addresses: Not Just For Whitey Anymore

Ah, the interwebs: the technology that brings us all together so that people of all stripes and shades can share photographs of cats. But holed-up in our comfortable North American lives, we can sometimes forget that some web technology still caters to the countries in which it was first developed. Case in point: web addresses have historically always been written in latin script – ya’ know, the letters you’re reading right now. But not anymore! Today ICANN, the body that regulates top-level domains like .com or .org, switched on a system that allows countries to create web addresses in non-latin…

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