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It’s 1998, you make a website in the copy of frontpage express that came with your computer, it’s just like Word and it’s very easy, you figure out how to upload it to the couple megs of web space that your ISP gives you (the instructions are on their website), you visit your site in your browser and everything’s fine and the site’s readable and everything looks the way it should.
🦝 “Wow, if it’s this easy in 1998, I bet it’ll be even easier in 2026” you think to yourself for some reason
– The beginning of a very good thread by Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
If you want to play games on the go, you’re spoiled for choice. But if you’re planning on doing some traveling and want to bring games along with you, I’d actually recommend none of those devices. There’s a much better, and older, option: the humble Nintendo DS.
– The Nintendo DS is still the best gaming handheld for travel
At the time, a typical compositor was expected to set roughly 700 ems an hour. Twelve hundred was considered fast; 1,400 was exceptional; breaking the 2,000 mark seemed like a physical impossibility. It was the typesetting equivalent of running a four-minute mile. Arensberg’s peers bestowed him with a new nickname: the “Velocipede”. Soon, Arensberg was the most famous typesetter in the world, and over the decade that followed his record-setting performance, typesetting races became increasingly popular with the broader public.
– Twilight of the Velocipede, Typesetting Races before the Age of Linotype By Alex Wright
Dehumidifiers came next. Industrial machines, the likes of which you stick a hose in the back and put the hose in your sink, and leave it on 24 hours a day. These plus the air conditioning certainly helped. But in the end, the biggest, most cost effective way to combat humidity and mold and create the most comfortable environment was the simplest: Fans.
– Airflow is Life by Craig Mod.
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