<p dir="ltr">On Jul 18, 2014 11:24 AM, "spike" <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> English became the de facto world language because of the timely appearance of the internet, which tied it to perhaps the most critically important leapfrog technology of our times.</p>
<p dir="ltr">English was arguably already the de facto world language. The Internet just cemented its position (but boy did it).</p>