Whether you despair at the latest slang trending on your Twitter feed, or kid yourself you’re still relevant by using the lingo that the kids say, it is impossible to ignore that language does indeed come in waves. Groovy, wicked, cool and bad are all words that were once on the tip of everyone’s tongue,(…)

A week later and people are still talking about the morning after the US election. Waking to a world where yet another Simpson’s prediction has come to life, this poem might very well be appropriate to how people are feeling post election. However, in a democratic country where the people get to choose their own(…)

As first steps in things that have become monumental, this very first Tweet by web designer Jack Dorsey is lacking in anything profound. Since that first Tweet back in 2006 Twitter has grown into an unbelievably useful and responsive social media platform, where people can type before their brains engage and bullies have brought new(…)

BASIC, C, C++, COBOL, FORTRAN, Ada, Pascal. For those of you who spot a foreign language in your midst, you are absolutely correct: the above are examples of computer programming languages learned and perfected by many a programmer around the world. When you want to speak to a computer to get it to do what(…)

Be honest. If it wasn’t for the fabulous Benedict Cumberbatch, it is likely that you would neither know anything about the enigma machine, nor would you know about the genius that was Alan Turing. The Imitation Game, a movie based loosely on the events of Alan Turing’s life and work, was actually the title of(…)

For the Sci-Fi fans among us, we have this famous Terminator quote—and gesture—down pat. Some of us grew up using it, some of the geekier ones might argue that “I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle” is a much more memorable quote from the franchise, but this one is the one that really(…)

Saluton! Dum longa tempo mi ne vidis vin! Kiel vi? If you have been even the slightest bit interested in our recent peek at the language that is Esperanto, perhaps you will have dabbled enough to recognise the above sentence as Hello! Long time no see! How are you? Or maybe you haven’t. Maybe you(…)

As we come to the end of our look at internet language, it would be remiss of us not to look at one of the most influential things to happen to us since the birth of the internet: social media. Whether your particular poison is Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, or any of the other vast numbers(…)

So far in this internet series, we have seen how the internet is only truly universal if you speak a certain language, and how acronyms and internet slang have become everyday words for us all. This week, we’re taking a look at emojis 😎. If you are one of those serial texters who have perfected(…)

The internet may have been released to the public back in 1991, but it didn’t achieve popularity, or become “normalised” as part of our everyday lives, until somewhere between 1996 and 2001. Since then, it has shaped and moulded our existence, as we have crafted it to fit our needs; it’s sort of like a(…)