> (Although I think @berkeley.edu is likely the most famous .edu? (because of BSD and all the man pages?))
Your average random is more likely to have heard of Harvard or MIT than Berkeley
I’m Australian. I think most educated Australians have heard of Harvard. You don’t even have to be “educated”, maybe you just saw The Social Network (or one of several other popular films featuring Harvard). How many Australians have heard of University of California at Berkeley? I think far less.
If you are an American who watches Fox News, you would have seen numerous stories about Harvard over the last 12 months. How many stories has Fox News run about Berkeley in the same period?
MIT is probably somewhat less famous than Harvard, but still vastly greater odds a random person who has lived their whole life on the other side of the planet has heard of it than Berkeley.
Berkeley is somewhat famous in the software field, but the vast majority of people have nothing to do with software development and hence know nothing about it
Your average random is more likely to have heard of Harvard or MIT than Berkeley
I’m Australian. I think most educated Australians have heard of Harvard. You don’t even have to be “educated”, maybe you just saw The Social Network (or one of several other popular films featuring Harvard). How many Australians have heard of University of California at Berkeley? I think far less.
If you are an American who watches Fox News, you would have seen numerous stories about Harvard over the last 12 months. How many stories has Fox News run about Berkeley in the same period?
MIT is probably somewhat less famous than Harvard, but still vastly greater odds a random person who has lived their whole life on the other side of the planet has heard of it than Berkeley.
Berkeley is somewhat famous in the software field, but the vast majority of people have nothing to do with software development and hence know nothing about it