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Coding Is for Everyone—as Long as You Speak English | WIRED

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Code depends on English—for reasons that are entirely unnecessary at a technical level.

Save this story Save this story This year marks the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, so there's been a lot of pixels spilled on "the initial promises of the web"—one of which was the idea that you could select "view source" on any page and easily teach yourself what went into making it display like that. Here's the very first webpage , reproduced by the tinker-friendly programming website Glitch in honor of the anniversary, to point out that you can switch to the source view and see that certain parts are marked up with <title> and <body> and <p> (which you might be able to guess stands

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