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xkcd 927 - How Standards Proliferate
(See: A/C chargers, character encodings, instant messaging, etc.)

Situation: There are 14 competing standards.

Cueball and Ponytail stand facing each other:
Cueball: 14?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone’s use cases.
Ponytail: Yeah!

Soon: Situation: we did it our standard beat all the other ones and is universal yay :D

  • marcos@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Situation after: there is a single universal standard that everybody adopts, it’s divided in 3 dimensions of 24 incompatible sub-standards everybody mashes at random.