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Your last sentence is hinting on something that actually has more bearing on technology effecting language: HTML. When I was first learning HTML & CSS it irked me to have to spell "colour" wrong to get things working. Now I just use the US American spelling everywhere (it helps that I'm currently in the US).

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That’s still not as bad as having to spell referrer wrong in http headers where it’s spelled “referer”... which is incorrect for every flavo(u)r of English.

I remember writing a logging method for a webserver forever ago, and could not for the life of me, understand why my Referrer values were not getting logged. Finally looked at the headers, and thought it was a bug in the browser I was testing. Took way too long to figure out the problem.

'Colour' in Am-Eng is not wrong though.

It's wrong in HTML, which is what matters.

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