Great article Gene! Your history finds are amazing. I teach a college class in second level Layout and Typography in a Mass Communications atmosphere. Most of my juniors and seniors have little idea of how a page is printed let alone how many changes have happened in the last 35 years. Thanks!
Submitted by artist_david on Fri, 04/11/2008 - 06:43.
Thanks David for the comment. It's ironic that the same advances in technology that made it possible for anyone to publish a newspaper ended up putting so many of them out of business. But then we do, thanks to the Web, finally have something close to true "publishing democracy."
Submitted by GeneGable on Mon, 04/14/2008 - 12:43.
So, that's how it all started with announcing about desktop publishing. I do remember using that old apple mac (the last ad shown), only I was just a little kid in elementary school. I used to play educational games on that mac. Great memories... I'm a proud mac user of iMAC and I love it for doing graphic design. ;)
Old News is Good News
Great article Gene! Your history finds are amazing. I teach a college class in second level Layout and Typography in a Mass Communications atmosphere. Most of my juniors and seniors have little idea of how a page is printed let alone how many changes have happened in the last 35 years. Thanks!
Irony of it all....
Thanks David for the comment. It's ironic that the same advances in technology that made it possible for anyone to publish a newspaper ended up putting so many of them out of business. But then we do, thanks to the Web, finally have something close to true "publishing democracy."
Desktop publishing
So, that's how it all started with announcing about desktop publishing. I do remember using that old apple mac (the last ad shown), only I was just a little kid in elementary school. I used to play educational games on that mac. Great memories... I'm a proud mac user of iMAC and I love it for doing graphic design. ;)