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by bloaf 8y ago

An ancient Sumerian ledger: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1250/0*7LNb7XKpR6vAdsBH.png https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1250/0*7LNb7XKpR6vAdsBH.... A ledger from the 1700s: https://recordoffice.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/d2375m-277-10_0002.jpg https://recordoffice.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/d2375m-277-... I think there are some UIs that almost perfectly fit the function; and they are the candidates for timelessness.

ThomPete 8y ago
These are extreme exceptions and hardly the point of the article.
tim333 8y ago
The ancient Sumerian one looks a bit like Excel. I think there are some limitation as to how you can lay stuff out and what the human brain is happy with. It's not all culture. Like with a lot of sites with flashy weird shit I use a reader view extension to make it look like books and pages have looked for centuries. Not so much because its the fashion but it's just clearer that way.