Reject modernity!
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@spacehobo @argv_minus_one @AccordionBruce @grwster
I often think about how the history of character sets has its own archeology. How it encodes political power and cultural shifts, the palimpsest outline of dead empires.
And yet the glyphs themselves when employed in algebra, in code are as clean and spartan as some platonic blueprint of truth.
Nothing is both as political and as apolitical as a variable.
@futurebird “Nothing is both as political and as apolitical as a variable.”
I’m going to be sitting with this one for a bit once the coffee kicks in.
@futurebird I'm still not a paper planner guy, but those stamps are sexy as hell.
@futurebird I never left them.😉
@futurebird Weelll...
I still remember the 90s when we printed out a wall calendar from Excel 🤭
@futurebird My severely dyslexic daughter is learning to navigate high school with a fill in the dates planner.
I was suuuuuper nervous it would work out (like, at least get one with pre-printed dates when learning to use a planner?) But she diligently filled it out and persevered. It really helped her gain a feeling of control.
I kind of miss the power they gave - I put your little meeting in a book you don't have access to. No electronic snooping telling you I'm available. You don't get to presume upon my time.
@futurebird Okay, you got me. I recognize all but the one in the lower left. I see it is some sort of calendar on top, but is it a type-set type of device?
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Last week I had to explain to my students that the "save symbol" wasn't just some random glyph but that it represented a floppy disk, an object that you would once save a file on. Long ago. In the olden days.
If I told them after about how things were before we invented fire I think they would have believed I was there for that one too.
@futurebird @spacehobo
I sometimes had to tell the children at work "no, I'm not older than dirt but I knew the guy that invented it".😁
@futurebird @spacehobo I hadn't thought about it until just now, but I guess icons are like historical snapshots: this was the dominant storage media when graphical user interfaces first appeared on personal computers
@futurebird @spacehobo One of the kids mentioned a classmate, on seeing a (real) floppy, said "Cool! it's a 3D printed version of the SAVE logo on the computer!"
@futurebird if there had to be an updated symbol that means "save" I wonder what it would look like? I thought maybe a piggy bank but nobody uses those anymore either lol. A jar or a check mark maybe.
@futurebird @spacehobo lighting fire to cook the dinosaur you hunted, correct?
At least that's what we did, back in the good old days, when you had a 1% chance of dying during childbirth...
@futurebird @spacehobo
I once had to explain to somebody that the icon that some programming software had for "compiling" or somesuch was not a pie knife, but actually a trowel.
It was, to be fair, a short-lived icon. Not really very clear, though it did make sense if you understood what it was.
As a child I didn't understand that this was a paint bucket. I think it was just too stylized.
I thought it was a graduation hat.
@futurebird True! I remember the old floppies! I used to have some when I got my 1st computer!
@cub80_appleby @futurebird except that one (3.5") isn't particularly floppy on the outside, and you should not crack open the delicious shell 😉
@futurebird it's good to be oldschool but maybe not THAT oldschool ... can we compromise?
Remember the old ways.
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@futurebird what is that and why isn't there halloween candy under the October dates?
I mean, all these look delightful regardless.
But I browse stationery/office supplies/artists' supplies stores just for the fun of it regularly, so I may be biased.
I have a paper "in" and "out" box on my desk and love it.
@futurebird @oddtail Do you put a paper printout of the Windows borg logo in the "Out" box when Microsoft has an outage?
