[ Thanks to MartinV for this link.
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“In the west, at least, illiteracy is practically a thing of the
past. That’s just as well, since it is difficult to survive, and
virtually impossible to prosper, in today’s world without the
ability to read and write. There is another kind of illiteracy,
however, as widespread as the old kind used to be: computer
illiteracy. Even in the most advanced countries in the world, the
vast majority of people are still unable to read or write any kind
of computer language.“Sure, most of us can use computers these days. We know how to
send email, surf the web or write a letter in Word. But would you
know what to do if all those pretty little icons in your browser
disappeared and, instead of Windows, you were left staring at lines
of letters and numbers of HTML, the language in which web pages are
written? If, like Neo in The Matrix, you could see the code behind
the graphics?…”