David Crystal, a language historian at the University of Wales in the U.K., argues that Netspeak and the Internet arc developing new forms of creativc language use that provide a strong motivation for literacy 30 (the skills of reading and writing). Crystal points out that through personal home pages and weblogs (commonly known as blogs), the almost lost art of diary keeping has been revived. Stanford University linguist Gcoffrey Nunberg agrees. "People get better at writing by writing," he claims, and online chatting and instant messages are getting young people to write more than ever before. "I think you could arguc that the kids who arc now doing text messaging, email, and instant messages will wind up writing at least as well as, and possibly better than, their parents or than any generation in history.