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I was thinking in a more general sense, and about how we keep seeing a churn in software "solutions" were as the parent comment pointed out how once a mechanica
by digi_owl 9y ago
I was thinking in a more general sense, and about how we keep seeing a churn in software "solutions" were as the parent comment pointed out how once a mechanical solution was found it stayed in use for decades.
- raverbashing 9y agoYes, there was a lot of mechanical (not as in repetitive, but in the sense of mechanical devices) and crafty knowledge that is now obsolete But Linotype was not too old, it replaced manually joining the types in a line It's evolution, and some things survive, some don't