On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 at 09:31, <2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote: > > On 2022-02-08 at 06:51:20 +1100, > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Either way, though: would a person on Mars "have the internet"? Yes, > > but not the internet as we know it... > > By current definition, they *can't* have the internet as we know it. > > Wikipedia,¹ Mirrian-Webster,² and TechTerms.com³ (the first three that > came up in my search engine, which is admittedly Earthbound for now) all > use words like "global" and phrases like "across the world" or "around > the world," all of which arguably exclude Mars, or at least a network > that covers both Earth and Mars. >
Yes, well, globally-unique IDs are probably going to be universally-unique IDs too, but we're not hugely bothered by that. Remember, you can get targeted advertising on the ISS too... https://xkcd.com/713/ ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
