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> "Publishing" tells me nothing, kind of. This is a bit like when young people express wide-eyed astonishment that bookmarks were physical objects. "Publishin
by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> "Publishing" tells me nothing, kind of.
This is a bit like when young people express wide-eyed astonishment that bookmarks were physical objects.
"Publishing" tells you what you need to know if you know that the word as used in the internet era is a slight repurposing of a word which has a distinct pre-internet meaning.
More specifically, "Desktop Publishing" is a late 1970s, early 1980s term for packages that made it possible to do any kind of controlled-layout publishing from a computer at all.
- recuter 5y agoDo you mean you could like, doodle around on a computer and get the output on the page the same as on the screen ancient one? Instead of using scissors and glue and paper cut outs? :)
- maweki 5y agoOr lead lettering. Yeah. Publishing used to be a multi-person job where layout, typesetting, and multiple other tasks where done on dedicated workspaces by seperate people. Desktop-publishing is really that: being able to do it on the top of a single desk (as a single person).
- recuter 5y agoCool! Man, I kinda want to setup one of those giant touch screen tables and some sort of AR hybrid. Pretend I'm doing it the old way but with none of the downsides. Sweeping scissors pantomime and minority report motions. Blank pieces of paper with different content projected unto them by... lasers, dependent on where on the table they happen to land. Glue sticks that are actually remote control knobs.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoBack in the eighties I remember visiting a lot of clients that had an Apple Mac, Apple LaserWriter and Aldus Pagemaker on their desk. I suspect Apple would have failed if it wasn't for their success in this niche.