Daily Archives: 2023-06-05

Article note: Well that's fucking cool. I've had a chance to page through a couple old copies of Computer Shopper, and the gigantic shitty newsprint and laissez faire typesetting and just deep deep "of it's time"-ness is hard to match. Online won't quite capture the full experience, but I'm very glad to hear folks are making a real effort at preservation before they all finish degrading away.

Article note: Really interesting piece. I played with "early" rust a little, and it was a very obviously philosophically different design than what it has progressed into. This is the how and why.