One Step Ahead

Although North Americans dominated the World Wide Web in its early years, the rest of the world has rapidly come on board, and many other countries and languages are represented on the Internet. This has come to a head recently in Google's "Orkut" community system, where some English-speaking Americans are complaining about Brazilians dominating the community groups, writing in Portugese.

Well, that's just the way of the world! There are far more non-English-speaking people on this planet, and many of them are just starting to use the Internet. Orkut itself has almost twice as many Brazilian members than American members, so it's hardly surprising that it's dominated with Portugese messages.