[X4U] browser decomposition??
Jens Selvig
lstnmt at bresnan.net
Wed Feb 8 16:20:06 PST 2006
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+++++++?
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