THE INTERNET AND LANGUAGES
[around the year 2000]
MARIE LEBERT
NEF, University of Toronto, 2009
Copyright © 2009 Marie Lebert. All rights reserved.
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Introduction
"Language nations" online
Towards a "linguistic democracy"
Encoding: from ASCII to Unicode
First multilingual projects
Online language dictionaries
Learning languages online
Minority languages on the web
Multilingual encyclopedias
Localization and internationalization
Machine translation
Chronology
Websites
INTRODUCTION
It is true that the internet transcends the limitations of time, distances and borders, but what about languages? Non-English-speaking internet users reached 50% in July 2000.
# "Language Nations"