Linguist Anne Curzan delights in the nuances and evolution of language. She says we should embrace they/them as singular pronouns---which have actually been used for hundreds of years. Anne Curzan is ...

The Oxford comma. “Ask” instead of “aks.” There, their, and they’re. The legitimacy of “ain’t” and “y’all.” These are familiar, if sometimes contentious, issues in the usage of the English language.

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up […] ...

Joshua Plotkin’s dive into the evolution of language began with clarity—and also a lack of it. Today, if you wanted to talk about something that’s clear, you’d say that it has clarity. But if you were ...

Are you old enough to remember the floppy disk? Take a moment to enjoy the evolution of computers as seen through Jeff Hay’s 19-year history with a company called Contoso, that sure looks a lot like ...

THESE images of retro personal computers are a throwback to their humble beginnings, revealing the technological evolution of the devices over their first 25 years. Taken by photographer John Short, ...

If you have ever owned a computer, especially over previous decades, you know that the type of storage used has changed many times. Thankfully, we’re long removed from the days of hard drives taking ...