Language is really just a communication tool. I would venture to say that you'd have a pretty difficult time describing a 'cascading style sheet' using the vocabulary available to Chaucer. ;) Being from Montana (USA) this stuff all just slides right over the top of my head anyway. Jens On Feb 8, 2006, at 11:01 AM, Douglas P. McNutt wrote: > We now live in a world where web pages metamorphose into an > entirely new language in less than a decade. Acronyms become words > like "blog" in two years. Cascading style sheets, now ubiquitous, > were unheard of in the era of 68k Macs. > > It's possible, with effort, to read Chaucer from 1360 or so. What > will it take to read a 2005 web page in 650 years? USB? RS232? > Morse code? C+++++++?