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The Evolution of Writing (by the founder of the first Rails host) (textism.com)
3 points by henning on July 26, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Informative, but should really be called "The Evolution of Writing in Italic and Germanic Scripts" (only one obligatory reference to an ancient Greek example and no mention of many other Indo-European scripts (say Slavic, which includes Russian etc.), let alone any Eastern scripts (CJK, etc.))




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