people realized, wait a minute, the internet is starting to be more than just a cross-state, something in the US, where there was the government network and the university networks, and eventually all those, I think the military one, or maybe that's the government one, I don't know. But whatever, all those networks that sort of came together to form the start of the internet, and then started becoming more global and stuff like that, at some point people realized, well, it doesn't scale to have hard-coded all of our domain names as ASCII text. Because someone over in Germany, like Matthias, is going to want to use that funny-looking B letter, that double S, the capital B-looking thing, I forget the name of that character, and probably couldn't say it if I knew it, in their domain name. Or someone in Greece is going to want to type in their natural thing that their keyboard types in. So we needed a way to translate domain names that people are going to use natively in their own (49/53)
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