O'ReillyNet covers an OSCON keynote comparing the development of origami to the development of open source software. "But much about origami changed as we entered the modern era of folding about fifty years ago. Akira Yoshizawa created new figures of artistic beauty. His new creations were certainly groundbreaking and pushed the art in new directions, but Lang explained that an even more important contribution was Yoshizawa's language for communicating designs. "He developed a written instructional language. A way of presenting origami information. This was the Hypertext Transfer Protocol of origami. It was created in 1950 and we've had 50 years to build on it.""

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