Interview on WNYC’s “The Takeaway” about the 20th anniversary of the “World Wide Web.” (Nov. 12, 2010)
The “World Wide Web” has become the central way most people interact with (and describe) the network of text and media on the internet. Twenty years ago today it was a temporary name given by British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee to an information management project he was working on. Ben Zimmer, linguist, lexicographer and “On Language” columnist for our partner, The New York Times Magazine, joins us to discuss how language describing the Web has evolved over the last two decades.
(Show page, streaming audio, download, related On Language column)