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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 laun
by 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 agoI 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 agoTeX is still TeX!