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Given that the printing press was invented 1500 something (in Europe, China was probably earlier), the couple dozen years with typewriters and dot-matrix printe
by hibbelig 7y ago
Given that the printing press was invented 1500 something (in Europe, China was probably earlier), the couple dozen years with typewriters and dot-matrix printers seem like a mere blip.
- laumars 7y agoMost people aren't 1500 years old ;) Even the invention of the dot-matrix printer is older than most on here (never mind the typewriter). A fair amount of the older workforce did grow up with typewriters and, later, dot matrix printers (or even teletypes) in their offices. Many on even started their careers using computers that only supported monospaced typefaces. I remember the first time I saw variable width fonts on a VDU (as they used to call "monitors") and it took me a second or two to adjust to typeface because most of my text consumption up to that point had been with fixed with characters. Or to use an analogy: horse-drawn ploughs might have pre-dated tractors by hundreds of years but that doesn't mean I have more experience with seeing horses ploughing fields than tractors.