Mastodawn

Ah, yes, because nothing screams "cutting-edge innovation" like sticking your fingers in a rotary phone for 48 hours during a festival named after soup. 🥣🔧🎶 Clearly, the future of tech is all about reinventing 1950s technology to play Spotify playlists with more wires than sense! 🚀📞😂
https://blog.oscars.dev/posts/rip-software-hackathons-long-live-the-hardware-hackathon/ #cuttingedgeinnovation #rotaryphone #techfestival #1950stechnology #spotifyplaylists #humor #HackerNews #ngated

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Keith Soltys May 3, 2024

Newspaper technology has changed drastically during my lifetime as the pictures from the early 1950s in this blog post show. My dad worked at the newspaper in the Sault and he went from hot lead type (Linotype machines), to photo offset, to computerized typesetting over the course of 40 years.

When these pictures were taken, the paper was producing two editions a day without any computerized tech.

https://coredump3.blogspot.com/2024/05/producing-newspaper-in-1950s.html

@glennf

#linotype #printing #newspapers #1950s #1950stechnology

Producing a Newspaper in the 1950s

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