Skip to content

Comment on Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu (1978) [video]

Comments

Interesting that the moveable type era lasted 900 years; the linotype era 100 years, and the paper cut-and-paste era maybe only 20.

For what it's worth, that trend is accelerating in its digital stage. Newspaper CMSs change so frequently, they approach abandonware territory within years and artifacts are left behind.

If you attend any large news site and search for "test" you will find those scraps as evidence of prior CMSs. Like chicago tribune "joe assembler test 1" or latimes "now testing assembler and p2p" or cnn "this is a developer test"

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.