The Evolution of Language

I've always been interested by uses of words, like Band-Aid, Kleenex, and Xerox, where the brand name has come to represent the thing, regardless of the actual brand being used. If this kind of thing interests you, then it's especially fascinating to live in our times, where Googling not only exists, but the world "Googling" also exists. So, imagine my delight in coming across this Web site on the wiki for my social software class. When I was born, blogs didn't exist (nor did wikis or online grad school programs, either) and now, here we are 27 years later with an entire language used to discuss them. Crazy.