Johnsonverse World History/Technology

==JPEG-XL==
JPEG-XL saw far more common usage than WEBP due to Johnson adopting the former format for Mandatum, as well as Chrome's discontinuation.
==NFTs and cryptocurrency==
The NFT boom of 2021-22 is far smaller and much briefer than in IOTL, due to Tim and Chloe being massively against the technology and how much energy producing cryptocurrency uses up; Johnson used their power to lure non-Johnson-owned companies away from it. In fact, not long after NFTs entered the mainstream in March 2021, President Sheldon Johnson made an Executive Order to ban crypto mining and trading across the United States, viewing it as a scam and a currency for criminals. Due to this Executive Order, OpenSea, Rarible, and Crypto(dot)com were all seized by the FBI. This means that Staples kept the naming rights to the Staples Center. Several brands never got involved with NFTs or crypto in the first place, due to it being both illegal and wildly unpopular. Canada, the UK, and the EU also passed similar laws to restrict crypto mining activity.
==Teletext==
Teletext (using the WST system) was introduced to the USA by WBC in 1975, and was soon adopted by all major networks in the US, Canada, and Mexico. Even after the analog/digital transition, teletext services continue in North America (including Hawaii, Japan, the US territories, and Legation Cities) and Europe ITTL, unlike in OTL where they were phased out during the digital transition in Europe. In fact, part of the digital transition included upgrading from Level 1 Teletext to Level 2.5, offering an enhanced colour palette and support for all languages included in BMP Unicode (unlike Level 1, which ITTL, only had basic punctuation marks, English letters, the enye (Ñ) for Spanish, accented letters for Canadian French, and Japanese Katakana, Hiragana, some common Kanji, and accented letters for Romaji). ITTL, Level 2.5 is a combination of OTL’s Level 2.5 teletext with elements from JTES (including the “geometric” mode).
The names of the “Big Nine” English networks’ teletext services are ABCtext (ABC), NText (NBC), Eyetext (CBS), ContinentalText (WBC), MGMText (MGM), RKOtext (RKO), Foxtext (Fox), SonyText (SPN), and WBtext (The WB). PBS operates a service known as “P-Fax” (a pun on the BBC's Ceefax system); UPN has “UPN Text”, and MyNetworkTV has “MyText”.
== VHS format ==
RCA and Panasonic (both of which are Johnson-owned) continue to support the format to this day. Johnson and other studios also continue to release their films on VHS, positioning it as a nostalgia format similar to records.
==Widescreen==
Due to Johnson-owned WBC Networks switching to widescreen in 1994, making widescreen TVs in collaboration with Panasonic and making it the default option on all PrimeStar boxes, it was adopted much earlier, and the format was fully adopted by 2000.
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