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Hacker News Discussion on Shubham Bose’s ‘The 49MB Web Page’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/19/hacker-news-49mb-web-page

Hacker News Discussion on Shubham Bose’s ‘The 49MB Web Page’

Link to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390945

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Philip Bussmann

@daringfireball https://www.nytimes.com/video/insider/100000004687429/farewell-etaoin-shrdlu.html Possibly this was already the beginning of the end.

Video: ‘Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu’

Filmed on July 1, 1978, this documentary by David Loeb Weiss chronicles the end of “hot type” at The New York Times — and the introduction of computers into The Times’s printing process.