[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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