&gt;&gt;English the language of the internet? It is perhaps the language of YOUR internet. The Chinese internet is as big -- and there&#x27;s the Indian internet, the Spanish speaking internet, and tons more besides.<p>These other internets that you have mentioned are not much significant outside their own little spheres. But English internet is the original one and the most important internet out there. English has become the de-facto standard language of modern communication.<p>I am all for making English as &quot;the&quot; standard language for the world. History is full with countless cultures&#x2F;languages getting destroyed at the hands of &quot;time&quot;. I am very happy that unofficially English has already become &quot;the&quot; standard language for the world.<p>Disclaimer: I am an Asian with English as a second (actually earlier as a third language). But due to English and due to English internet alone I could educate myself to a large extent and could come out of the clutches of the barbaric and irrational religious preachings&#x2F;scriptures.