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How Photographers Retouched Pictures Before Photoshop
Since Adobe Photoshop was launched in 1989, photographers have had it easy, being able to tweak images to their heart’s content without getting their hands dirty. But it wasn’t always like that.
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QWERTY’s Origin Story Is A Big Fat Lie
You use it every day without a second thought, but if you think about it for just a second, QWERTY is really, really weird. Where did something so strangely unintuitive come from? The popular story is that it has to do with typewriter mechanics and jamming prevention, and although that explanation sure is tidy, it’s…
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How Developers Coded In 1985
Programmer John Graham-Cumming tells a fascinating story about what coding like was back in 1985. Unlike today’s programmers who wear hoodies, down energy drinks and use a paper thin computer, programmers in 1985 had to code by hand… with actual paper.
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Listen To Alexander Graham Bell Introduce Himself From 100 Ago
It’s not often you get to hear with the 19th century sounded like, but thanks to 3D scanning and old wax cylinders, it’s possible. And now, for the very first time, we know what Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the all-important telephone, might have sounded like when he made that historic call.