The Alphabet was discovered by British cryptographers at Bletchley Park during World War Two in a tin of Alphabetti Spagetti. They immediately siezed upon this discovery and used it to spell their names, the name of their unit and the name of the country they were fighting. The technology was shared with the Americans and, in a more limited form with the Russians. The German and Japenese High Commands immediately set about trying to copy the Alphabet - German spies succeeded in stealing most of it in 1942, even inventing a letter of their own, the ß. Meanwhile the Japanese used up precious resources developing their own alphabet.
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