McCulloch — “Like the big collaborative projects of the internet…”

Source: Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language — Gretchen McCulloch

Book page: mcculloch-because-internet-part-1

From: Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language — Quotes

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Like the big collaborative projects of the internet, such as Wikipedia and Firefox, like the decentralized network of websites and machines that make up the internet itself, language is a network, a web. Language is the ultimate participatory democracy. To put it in technological terms, language is humanity’s most spectacular open source project.