Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Latin script began in the ancient Greek city of Cumae, where a form of the Greek alphabet was altered by the Etruscans before the Ancient Romans ever adopted it. This chain of adaptation created a writing system that would eventually become the most widely used in human history.
The letter W came into common use in the later 11th century, replacing the letter wynn which had been used for the same sound. It originated as a doubled V written as VV to represent the sound found in Old English as early as the 7th century.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, three of the newly independent Turkic-speaking republics, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, as well as Romanian-speaking Moldova, officially adopted Latin alphabets for their languages. Kyrgyzstan, Iranian-speaking Tajikistan, and the breakaway region of Transnistria kept the Cyrillic alphabet due to their close ties with Russia.
In 1957, the People's Republic of China introduced a script reform to the Zhuang language, changing its orthography from Sawndip to a Latin script alphabet. In 1982, this was further standardized to use only Latin script letters.
In July 2020, 2.6 billion people, representing 36% of the world population, use the Latin alphabet. This figure serves as a testament to the success of digital standards like ISO/IEC 646 and ASCII.
On the 12th of February 2021, the government of Uzbekistan announced it will finalize the transition from Cyrillic to Latin for the Uzbek language by 2023. Plans to switch to Latin originally began in 1993 but subsequently stalled.