![]() Looking at the Xerox Alto, the computer that inspired Apple to create the Macintosh, as a machine that could be used to lay out and publish things might to some degree fudge the “desktop publishing” definition for some, but the case for it is pretty strong. But that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily wrong. This one is likely going to be controversial with someone, which I fully admit is true. ![]() Platform: Groundbreaking-but-failed computer platform that inspired the GUI-based world in which we live ![]() (Oh yeah, quick reminder of what makes things obscure, from our point of view.) - Ernie Tedium So in a continuation of our list of things that didn’t make it, Today’s Tedium takes a look at 10 early examples of desktop publishing software that you probably don’t remember desktop publishing was a killer app nearly 40 years ago and you were in diapers back then … if you existed at all. And while we’ve landed on a few standards, a lot of desktop publishing tools failed to make to it the present day. And with the decline of print as a medium, it can feel kind of old hat, but lots of stuff still gets typeset every single day. While at its heart a mishmash of hardware and software cleverly combined for a single goal, it was an empire builder, one that helped create new businesses and improve the status and positioning of existing ones. Today in Tedium: It’s easy to forget now, but desktop publishing was an immensely innovative thing when it emerged within the computing industry in the early ’80s.
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