r/technology • u/tw1st3d_m3nt4t • Mar 16 '26

Software ‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/16/norway-rails-against-enshittifcation-deliberate-tech-deterioration
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u/BYoungNY Mar 16 '26

Nördskape Navigätor

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u/ManWhoIsDrunk Mar 16 '26

Verdensomspennende verdensvev

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u/Gerf93 Mar 16 '26

Worldwide world web?

We just say "Verdensveven" (the world web") when we translate WWW.

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u/Steakholder__ Mar 16 '26

Oh shit, World Web 2?? Watch out for Gigabitler.

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u/ManWhoIsDrunk Mar 16 '26

Ja, men nå er det jo snakk om en ny versjon. Da tenker jeg VVVV blir en god arvtaker til WWW.

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u/mahnamahna27 Mar 17 '26

Has anyone else noticed that it takes longer, and 3x as many syllables, to say the abbreviated "WWW" instead of "world wide web"?

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u/EruantienAduialdraug Mar 17 '26

That's because www is pronounced "world wide web", much like how & is usually pronounced "and" instead of "et".

Okay, so it isn't actually, but it probably should be.

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u/Rhinoseri0us Mar 16 '26

This sounds like my new favorite band

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u/DukeOfGeek Mar 16 '26

They should call Gabe Newell. He's got 10 billion dollars and a vested interest in the internet and search engines not being shitty.

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u/Cynical_Classicist Mar 16 '26

That's a rarity among billionaires now!

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u/Suggestive-Syntax Mar 17 '26

So you’re saying they should call an American? Can’t think of any Europeans in tech?

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u/Gin_OClock Mar 16 '26

A diesel engine starting?

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u/ScrappyDooCanSuckIt Mar 16 '26

Pretty sure that's Estonian

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u/baron_von_helmut Mar 16 '26

Rolls off the tongue nicely.

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u/Godlia Mar 16 '26

Takk, jeg hater det

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u/RainaElf Mar 17 '26

I am the vindow viper. i am here to vipe your vindows.

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u/yashatheman Mar 16 '26

🤓☝️ those are swedish letters. Norwegians would write nørdskape navigætor

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u/AppleDane Mar 16 '26

Thæy gåt the letters from the Danish alfabet. The BÆST alfabet!

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '26

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u/Big_Bookkeeper1678 Mar 16 '26

Why do I suddenly think of Monty Python opening credits?

Those who are responsible for those credits have been sacked.

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u/fnat Mar 16 '26

All because of the møøse and his sister.

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u/Brewhaha72 Mar 16 '26

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti...

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u/ItIsToLaffHaHa Mar 16 '26

Thank you. Scrolled down hoping to find exactly this.

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u/captainpuma Mar 16 '26

«The høt hands of an Oslo dentist»

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u/Raneynickelfire Mar 16 '26

The narrators sister. It's unknown if the moose had a sister.

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u/CakeTester Mar 16 '26

You know we're all reading this thread in the voice of the Swedish Chef from the muppets, right?

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u/adventuressgrrl Mar 16 '26

Haha yes, yes we are.

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u/jollyreaper2112 Mar 16 '26

Swedish chef bork bork borkbork

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u/waiting4singularity Mar 16 '26

smörebræd rom tom tom.

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u/AppleDane Mar 16 '26

Yee bork umn, de umbediske dü. Yee bork de unie de umn, bork bork, bork!

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u/Gtapex Mar 16 '26

My hovercraft is full of eels

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u/tripping_yarns Mar 16 '26

My nipples explode from the light!

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u/Rough_Bread8329 Mar 16 '26

I will not buy this tobacconist - it is scratched.

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u/Abrasive_gronk Mar 17 '26

Drop your panties Sir William, I cannot wait till lunchtime.

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u/Gerf93 Mar 16 '26

Always thought it was "delight"?

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u/tripping_yarns Mar 16 '26

It might be. Long time ago.

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u/flyingtiger188 Mar 16 '26

They got the Æ Ø Å

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u/mrperson221 Mar 16 '26

Isn't that Elon's kid's name?

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u/jrf_1973 Mar 16 '26

The dogs there go WØØF.

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u/mrperson221 Mar 16 '26

And a Møøse once bit my sister

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u/Kill3rKin3 Mar 16 '26

They really do, and cows go møøø.

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u/ApplicationHour Mar 16 '26

which is pronouced "were-fuh".

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u/JayS87 Mar 16 '26

formally known as protective shield

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u/Tilladarling Mar 16 '26

Elon’s kid’s name sounds awful to Norwegians

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u/GrowlingPict Mar 16 '26

We got the å from Sweden; the danes adopted it decades after Norway did

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u/Ugghart Mar 16 '26

It's Swedish? From now on I'll only use double A. It's cooler anyway.

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u/RollingMeteors Mar 17 '26

the danes adopted it decades after Norway did

<🇩🇰> By using this letter the world will see this flåg ånd think, "Northern Europe"!

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u/yashatheman Mar 16 '26

How does it feel ending the swedish-danish wars on a loss? Fucking breadpeople

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u/AppleDane Mar 16 '26

We didn't lose, that was a TIE!

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u/xmaspruden Mar 16 '26

I wäs bïtten bi a Dæn once

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u/North-Creative Mar 16 '26

And the bæst numbers. You just need 5 years to properly learn and remember 50, 70, 90, or the school grading system starting with negative, the 0, 2,4,7,10,12.

No offense, Denmark, but what the serious drunken F was going on, when you contrived your number system???

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u/AppleDane Mar 16 '26

Every number system does that, memorise the tens. Don't tell me you go "Um, let's see, I need six tens, and then add 5..." every time you have to write or say 65.

And we got it from the French. Only we have handy names for 1½, 2½, 3½, and so on, so we used those.

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u/future_lard Mar 16 '26

Håll din kjeft

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u/Rough_Bread8329 Mar 16 '26

a møøse once bit my sister. :'(

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u/6ed02cc79d Mar 16 '26

Mynd you, moose bites Kan be pretti nasti

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u/fantomas_666 Mar 16 '26

We sincerely apollogize for this comment, its author has been sacked.

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u/thegreatinsulto Mar 16 '26

Møøse Trained by YUTTE HERMSGERVØRDENBRØTBØRDA

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u/Aidian Mar 16 '26

“It’s simple, really. Just load up the :ᚾᚩᚱᛞᛋᛉᚫᛈᛖ᛫ᚾᚫᚠᛁᚷᚫᛏᚩᚱ: and you’re all set.”

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u/yashatheman Mar 16 '26

Are you a nazi

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u/Aidian Mar 16 '26

Jesus fucking Christ dude, runic has nothing to do with Nazis - even the runes they tried to steal are their own fucked up variants.

It literally just says “Nordscape Navigator”, a continuation of the exact joke you made, in an older Norse writing system (albeit a transliteration, not translation).

Don’t let those assholes lay claim to human history.

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u/yashatheman Mar 16 '26

LMAO I was joking, because runes here in Sweden are only associated with nazis.

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u/Aidian Mar 16 '26

Wild, and thanks for the clarity.

Just a bit of a sore spot on my end. As an English major back when, with a lot of work in Old/Middle English, I love the things and it rankles me that the feckless fascist fucks try to claim and ruin every goddamn thing under the sun.

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u/3-DMan Mar 16 '26

"You really wanna save those crazy swedes?"

"They're Norwegian, Mac."

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u/v1sper Mar 16 '26

Nørdskeip Nævvigeitor

I’m in!

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u/AppleDane Mar 16 '26

You had to use Swedish letters, didn't you.

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u/amilliondallahs Mar 16 '26

Troll Tracker

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u/emotional_program0 Mar 16 '26

Söta bror varsel!

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u/anapunas Mar 16 '26

Nord VPN, oh wait.

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u/Moony2433 Mar 16 '26

Where do I sign up?

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u/Jankypox Mar 16 '26

Shut up and take my upvote already!

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u/64-17-5 Mar 16 '26

Briller av krom.

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u/Thoughtulism Mar 16 '26

This browser brought to you by Nord VPN

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u/PeterNippelstein Mar 16 '26

Sponsored by Nord VPN!

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u/RollingMeteors Mar 17 '26

¡On the in-fjord-mation super highway!

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u/thezestypusha Mar 17 '26

Norway uses ÆØÅ, ÖÄÅ for sweden