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The San Francisco Bay area, aka Silicone Valley, aka the BIRTHPLACE of computers. DARPA (US Military), created the internet, but when it was opened to public, again it was "The Bay Area" that made it usable to the world.
It has a little bit of importance to computing.
The point wasn't that it's not important, it's that it's so generic in name as to mean nothing to many outside of the US. The reason I mentioned it is because I have had to Google which bay area Americans refer to.
Consider me an alien confused about which moon you're talking about when you say 'the moon'
Fair point. Yes Americans are ego centric in most cases. In my original comment that got everyone panties in bunch, was because most.of the tech companies and web hosting sites are in the US, or based here, giving US law enforcement jurisdiction. I didn't know where lemmy.world.was based until someone in this thread told me.