Oh goodness. I recall kids sniffing Liquid Paper in some attempt to get high.
Also: I deeply regret that we may have thrown out our old QWERTY - it was a beauty from another era, like the 1940s. Deep regret.
That backspace function was just magic... I know we already talked about it, but dayumn what a game changer! That was right around the time when I was starting to have to turn in typed essays, so it was incredible timing.
this post was inspired by some chatter we had over on your side. The main thing is how revolution trumps evolution and we don't see it coming. Tech obsolescence. QWERTY wont go anywhere - it'll just be replaced by ... ?
Did you ever work on early text editors that weren't WYSIWIG? I got really good at them and it blew my mind when that changed to a virtual sheet of paper.
I want to say I did, but I'm actually not sure. This could be a hallucinated memory, or it could be only something I did a handful of times. I do seem to recall what was on the screen looking nothing like what came out, but I also want to say that was an actual PC and not a word processer per se. #fuzzymemories
Thanks for carrying the brain-torch a little further!
You’re not the only one! I was surprised you can still buy it—I couldn’t find or make a good pic of the bottle, so that’s actually a product image from an e-commerce site. Why don’t use the magic tape gun versus the goop?
Cool story on Michael’s mom. I knew someone’s mom invented it but I didn’t know that person was famous in their own right. Also, Stifler’s mom.
Oh goodness. I recall kids sniffing Liquid Paper in some attempt to get high.
Also: I deeply regret that we may have thrown out our old QWERTY - it was a beauty from another era, like the 1940s. Deep regret.
That backspace function was just magic... I know we already talked about it, but dayumn what a game changer! That was right around the time when I was starting to have to turn in typed essays, so it was incredible timing.
this post was inspired by some chatter we had over on your side. The main thing is how revolution trumps evolution and we don't see it coming. Tech obsolescence. QWERTY wont go anywhere - it'll just be replaced by ... ?
Did you ever work on early text editors that weren't WYSIWIG? I got really good at them and it blew my mind when that changed to a virtual sheet of paper.
I want to say I did, but I'm actually not sure. This could be a hallucinated memory, or it could be only something I did a handful of times. I do seem to recall what was on the screen looking nothing like what came out, but I also want to say that was an actual PC and not a word processer per se. #fuzzymemories
Thanks for carrying the brain-torch a little further!
I still use it. Just saying.
Michael Nesmith’s mom invented it.
You’re not the only one! I was surprised you can still buy it—I couldn’t find or make a good pic of the bottle, so that’s actually a product image from an e-commerce site. Why don’t use the magic tape gun versus the goop?
Cool story on Michael’s mom. I knew someone’s mom invented it but I didn’t know that person was famous in their own right. Also, Stifler’s mom.