Around the mid-1990s, when the Internet and the WWW (World Wide Web) were introduced for general use, web browsers became an essential launchpad to access documents on the web. Hypertext Markup ...

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A group of neuroscientists argue that our words are primarily for communicating, not for reasoning. By Carl Zimmer For thousands of years, philosophers have argued about the purpose of language. Plato ...

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Old Glories: Fortran and Cobol are still among the world's most popular programming languages despite being almost 70 years old. They're certainly overachieving, but for entirely different reasons, ...

Technology is accelerating the rate of language disappearance, even while it offers the hope of preserving those that are endangered or extinct. A new crowd-sourcing platform aims to preserve the ...

XML, or Extensible Markup Language, is a human-readable and machine-friendly format used to store and transport data. Learning to work with XML files can be valuable for web developers and data ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Language is a beautifully intricate system that allows us to express our ...

Dots on the maps in this piece represent, among other things, efforts to revitalize a language as well as communities of speakers. Most people think of endangered languages as far-flung or exotic, the ...