This book (“Sweating bullets”) is really good. It’s a fascinating business case study and an unexpected startup tale, and it’s highly detailed and much richer than it has the right to be.pic.twitter.com/j4ubPxS1c5
Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him
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This book (“Sweating bullets”) is really good. It’s a fascinating business case study and an unexpected startup tale, and it’s highly detailed and much richer than it has the right to be.pic.twitter.com/j4ubPxS1c5
The stories of how slide decks looked before PowerPoint – and there wasn’t just one style – and how it influenced communications are blowing my mind.
(BTW it doesn’t come with a box of PowerPoint, that’s just my copy :·) ) The book spends a lot of time talking about the *context* of all the decisions, which is so informative.
It looks like it’s available online for free on author’s page, too – but you can also support him by paying for it: https://www.robertgaskins.com/
Feels like required reading for anyone interested in the history of communications.
Thanks to @hypertalking for telling me about it!
There’s an early story of people cobbling together a highly complex system (making slides in Emacs, typesetting them TeX, adding illustrations by *hacking together a TeX font to tile an image*) and I’m like THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT I DO TODAY IN HTML.pic.twitter.com/ATKQg8V0NQ
Now I want to give a presentation talking about the pre-PowerPoint and early-PowerPoint slides described in this book… by recreating other modes of presenting (transparencies, 35mm slides, analog videos) using a modern HTML slide deck. Meta level: Very Meta.
“At the end of that period, nearly three years of intensive work, we shipped PowerPoint 1.0 for Mac, with the program files on the diskettes dated 20 April 1987.” 4/20: The PowerPoint Day
Okay, I will shut up now.
Last thing: design mock-ups for the first version of PowerPoint (named Presenter).
pic.twitter.com/eyezNQ31GR
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