Without Aldus PageMaker (and later, Quark XPress) I wouldn’t have a career.
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@octothorpe Voyager’s discs were the gold standard. You worked for them? I’m envious.
@tantramar My first real ‘big boy’ professional job. There are a few ex-Voyager folk on here.
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@octothorpe <throws up the QXP / FreeHand / PhotoShop 1.0 gang sign>
@octothorpe <decides to take a trip down memory lane with the alien delete easter egg, realizes the onset of my perpetual grumpiness coincides with QXP suits removing it in v5 https://www.swiss-miss.com/2012/06/quarkxpress-easter-egg.html>
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@tantramar But also, the WebSTAR/ButlerSQL/(cheese braining the coldFusion-like web application framework) was also pretty up there. With that stack, I was able to architect the first WrestleMania to be live streamed (Real was the streaming tech, but the whole website infra was that).
@octothorpe WrestleMania!?! Hahahaha That’s awesome!
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@octothorpe I remember making copies of the Aldus PageMaker (and lots of others) program 800k floppies when I worked at UCSC Extension as satellite campus tech wrangler in Santa Clara back in, IDK, 1989 maybe? Everything was copy-able!
@kevbob Quark XPress was the first real wrench in that.
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@kevbob Quark XPress was the first real wrench in that.
@octothorpe wow- it's still in active development! I had no idea!
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@octothorpe WrestleMania!?! Hahahaha That’s awesome!
@tantramar Oh the stories I have of that! I was literally in the locker room during all of it (it was the only space we had where we had the power, and access to internet). Yes, naked wrestlers. ::shutter::
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@octothorpe wow- it's still in active development! I had no idea!
@kevbob Woah! I knew it was a few years ago, but I’ve heard nothing for at least 5.
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@kevbob Woah! I knew it was a few years ago, but I’ve heard nothing for at least 5.
@octothorpe and in TIL, you prompted me to look this up, to this day, I had no idea the guy on the package was a real person. I assumed it was, but there was obv no WWW when I first encountered the software and I never bothered to check again til now.
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@tantramar Oh the stories I have of that! I was literally in the locker room during all of it (it was the only space we had where we had the power, and access to internet). Yes, naked wrestlers. ::shutter::
@octothorpe I feel you’ve over-shared already, somehow.
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@octothorpe and in TIL, you prompted me to look this up, to this day, I had no idea the guy on the package was a real person. I assumed it was, but there was obv no WWW when I first encountered the software and I never bothered to check again til now.
@kevbob Yup! That’s the one!
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@nuthatch Honestly, I donnow. I would have had jobs, sure. But the original Mac, amd shortly after, the Mac Plus ignited something in me that said ‘ok, I can use this thing to actually do stuff’, which lead to my going to MIT, and going into HCI…
@octothorpe what would you have done in the 1800’s? I’m thinking whaler. Or pirate. Architect?
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Without Aldus PageMaker (and later, Quark XPress) I wouldn’t have a career.
Without Macromind Director, I wouldn’t have a career.
Without Quicktime, I wouldn’t have a career.
Without Netscape, AOL Server (look it up, kids), Oracle, and SPARCs, I wouldn’t have a career.
I’ve done a lot of cool shit with a lot of cool folk over the years, and it’s all due to key foundational enabling technologies.
@octothorpe I started a small Apple post and it's quickly turned into a narrative of this list for me.
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@octothorpe what would you have done in the 1800’s? I’m thinking whaler. Or pirate. Architect?
@nuthatch died by 4, probably.
