It pains me greatly that the host name part is in lack of a better name unimportance to significance in domain names, but significance to unimportance in URL paths
I think a more intriguing question is ”Why no Chinese industrial revolution?” Their economy was nowhere near as slavery or serfdom based, and was impressively technologically advanced
i would argue most people that install chromium, not chrome, no what a search engine is. unfortunately, since chromium lost google account login capabilities, i do not install chromium anymore. now i just think "search engine" means "google".
in most countries the dates 6th - 14th october 1582 existed since far from all countries switched to the Gregorian calendar when the Papal bull to switch was issued. Essentially only Catholic countries followed the bulla. Russia, for example, didnt switch from the Julian calendar until 1917.
Maintainer, not maintainers. If you look at the vim repo, https://github.com/vim/vim, essentially all commits are from the same person. Encouraging contributions and splitting maintenance between multiple people was one of the key factors when forking neovim. IIRC neovim was a result of Bram, the vim creator, refusing a PR for async plugins. Functionality that is today regarded as extremely important.