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Somewhat related - there's a good documentary about the last edition of the New York Times published using the linotype process called "Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu"

• russellbeattie 9y ago
  The end of the video - from 1978 - shows a bunch of people tapping away at CRT terminals. If you think about the fact that the first terminal like that was launched in 1969, and the first integrated microprocessor just a few years later, it took less than a decade for those monster linotype machines to go from the standard for printing, to so-much scrap metal. It's a pretty rapid change, which got even faster just 6 years later with the introduction of the Mac and "Desktop Publishing". I studied this stuff in 1990 and I might as well have learned all about making wooden horse cart wheels as the Web took over soon after. Crazy pace of change...
  • hnzix 9y ago
    I was two cohorts later and Quark just got killed by PageMaker then Freehand which got killed by InDesign and Illustrator. But I also learnt Authorware that got killed by Director that got killed by Flash. Then I learnt Hotdog, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, ColdFusion, ASP, PHP... Can we just settle on a standard already? (Now learning Sketch and ReactJS and Clojure)
    • greglindahl 9y ago
      TeX is still TeX!
• lobster_johnson 9y ago
  That was fascinating, thank you! I really appreciated the factual, no-nonsense documentary approach. So many current documentaries have annoyingly intrusive presenters and fill their runtime up with irrelevant aesthetic shots. (An honorable recent exception: Netflix's Dirty Money, which was produced by Alex Gibney, whose style I like a lot.)