Topic summary
Digital culture
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Internet culture.
History
Initially, digital culture tilted toward the Anglosphere. As a result of the internet being a British–American invention and computer technology's early reliance on textual coding systems that were mainly adapted to the English language, Anglophone societies—followed by other societies with languages based on Latin script—enjoyed privileged access to digital culture. However, other languages have gradually grown in prominence. In specific, the proportion of content on the Internet that is in English has dropped from roughly 80% in the 1990s to around 52.9% in 2018.