<![CDATA[Without Aldus PageMaker (and later, Quark XPress) I wouldn’t have a career.]]>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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/5dc8b837-674c-4258-bcd1-304d69eb2d40/without-aldus-pagemaker-and-later-quark-xpress-i-wouldn-t-have-a-career.RSS for NodeThu, 16 Apr 2026 22:56:38 GMTFri, 03 Apr 2026 14:30:39 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Without Aldus PageMaker (and later, Quark XPress) I wouldn’t have a career. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:43:01 GMT]]>@nuthatch died by 4, probably.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/octothorpe/statuses/116341537600464904https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/octothorpe/statuses/116341537600464904Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:43:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Without Aldus PageMaker (and later, Quark XPress) I wouldn’t have a career. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:39:56 GMT]]>@octothorpe I started a small Apple post and it's quickly turned into a narrative of this list for me.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tacobelllabs.net/users/ultranurd/statuses/116341525487994871https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tacobelllabs.net/users/ultranurd/statuses/116341525487994871Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:39:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Without Aldus PageMaker (and later, Quark XPress) I wouldn’t have a career. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:37:39 GMT]]>@octothorpe what would you have done in the 1800’s? I’m thinking whaler. Or pirate. Architect?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/nuthatch/statuses/116341516487402264https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/nuthatch/statuses/116341516487402264Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:37:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Without Aldus PageMaker (and later, Quark XPress) I wouldn’t have a career. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:31:56 GMT]]>@kevbob Yup! That’s the one!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/octothorpe/statuses/116341494017825373https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/octothorpe/statuses/116341494017825373Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:31:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Without Aldus PageMaker (and later, Quark XPress) I wouldn’t have a career. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:27:34 GMT]]>@octothorpe I feel you’ve over-shared already, somehow. 😬

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://zeroes.ca/users/tantramar/statuses/116341476822402432https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://zeroes.ca/users/tantramar/statuses/116341476822402432Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:27:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Without Aldus PageMaker (and later, Quark XPress) I wouldn’t have a career. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:27:24 GMT]]>@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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Aldus Manutius - Wikipedia

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(en.wikipedia.org)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://xoxo.zone/users/kevbob/statuses/116341476224052863https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://xoxo.zone/users/kevbob/statuses/116341476224052863Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:27:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Without Aldus PageMaker (and later, Quark XPress) I wouldn’t have a career. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:07:36 GMT]]>@kevbob Woah! I knew it was a few years ago, but I’ve heard nothing for at least 5.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/octothorpe/statuses/116341398347736807https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/octothorpe/statuses/116341398347736807Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:07:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Without Aldus PageMaker (and later, Quark XPress) I wouldn’t have a career. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:06:37 GMT]]>@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::

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/octothorpe/statuses/116341394470419751https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/octothorpe/statuses/116341394470419751Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:06:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Without Aldus PageMaker (and later, Quark XPress) I wouldn’t have a career. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:54:52 GMT]]>@octothorpe wow- it's still in active development! I had no idea!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://xoxo.zone/users/kevbob/statuses/116341348266353728https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://xoxo.zone/users/kevbob/statuses/116341348266353728Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:54:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Without Aldus PageMaker (and later, Quark XPress) I wouldn’t have a career. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:50:38 GMT]]>@kevbob Quark XPress was the first real wrench in that.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/octothorpe/statuses/116341331626458670https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/octothorpe/statuses/116341331626458670Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:50:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Without Aldus PageMaker (and later, Quark XPress) I wouldn’t have a career. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:50:22 GMT]]>@octothorpe WrestleMania!?! Hahahaha That’s awesome!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://zeroes.ca/users/tantramar/statuses/116341330555116234https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://zeroes.ca/users/tantramar/statuses/116341330555116234Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:50:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Without Aldus PageMaker (and later, Quark XPress) I wouldn’t have a career. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:50:21 GMT]]>@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>

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/rgm/statuses/116341330531596993https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/rgm/statuses/116341330531596993Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:50:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Without Aldus PageMaker (and later, Quark XPress) I wouldn’t have a career. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:49:46 GMT]]>@tantramar My first real ‘big boy’ professional job. There are a few ex-Voyager folk on here.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/octothorpe/statuses/116341328228621502https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/octothorpe/statuses/116341328228621502Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:49:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Without Aldus PageMaker (and later, Quark XPress) I wouldn’t have a career. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:48:44 GMT]]>@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).

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/octothorpe/statuses/116341324180972794https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/octothorpe/statuses/116341324180972794Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:48:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Without Aldus PageMaker (and later, Quark XPress) I wouldn’t have a career. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:48:29 GMT]]>@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!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://xoxo.zone/users/kevbob/statuses/116341323180651573https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://xoxo.zone/users/kevbob/statuses/116341323180651573Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:48:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Without Aldus PageMaker (and later, Quark XPress) I wouldn’t have a career. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:47:30 GMT]]>@octothorpe <throws up the QXP / FreeHand / PhotoShop 1.0 gang sign>

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/rgm/statuses/116341319286254541https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/rgm/statuses/116341319286254541Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:47:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Without Aldus PageMaker (and later, Quark XPress) I wouldn’t have a career. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:45:05 GMT]]>@octothorpe Voyager’s discs were the gold standard. You worked for them? I’m envious.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://zeroes.ca/users/tantramar/statuses/116341309792653844https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://zeroes.ca/users/tantramar/statuses/116341309792653844Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:45:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Without Aldus PageMaker (and later, Quark XPress) I wouldn’t have a career. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:44:21 GMT]]>@tantramar HyperCard/Talk got me into Director/Lingo, which got me into Voyager Co. making ‘edutainment’ CD-ROMs

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/octothorpe/statuses/116341306910140784https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/octothorpe/statuses/116341306910140784Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:44:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Without Aldus PageMaker (and later, Quark XPress) I wouldn’t have a career. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:42:18 GMT]]>@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…

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/octothorpe/statuses/116341298841630809https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/octothorpe/statuses/116341298841630809Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:42:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Without Aldus PageMaker (and later, Quark XPress) I wouldn’t have a career. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:40:26 GMT]]>@octothorpe HyperCard
QuickTime
QTVR Authoring Studio
Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator
BBEdit
StarNine WebSTAR
mTropolis
Final Cut Pro

I had Director; along with Strata Studio Pro, it was mainly a way to make illustrations or animation for HyperCard Stacks.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://zeroes.ca/users/tantramar/statuses/116341291504283564https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://zeroes.ca/users/tantramar/statuses/116341291504283564Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:40:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Without Aldus PageMaker (and later, Quark XPress) I wouldn’t have a career. on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:37:46 GMT]]>@octothorpe I think you’d have a career, it would just be different?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/nuthatch/statuses/116341281028016063https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/nuthatch/statuses/116341281028016063Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:37:46 GMT