http://techchannel.att.com/play-video.cfm/2012/4/11/AT&T-Archives-Yellow-Pages-by-Computer-Graphics
My first graphics job was using an electronic typesetter — using codes to control the layout, no WYSIWYG. (In retrospect, it prepared me for HTML.) AT&T’s implementation makes me want to throw something through the screen, even this edited demo makes it seem glacially slow. If the Mac and desktop publishing hadn’t come along I would never have continued in this business.
Just a heads up — I’m switching the blog over to new software, so things will be a little messy and disrupted here for the next day or two (or three, depending on how much time I have to deal with it)…
Wherein I report to you the year-end demographics of my Facebook friends. Eye-opening statistics, indeed.
Now I know why my UPS driver is so hot: For Alberto Ramirez Jr., who directs packages from a conveyor belt into a handful of chutes, his overnight shift Tuesday felt like a daylong workout at the gym. “There are [more...]
