Book idea: Anthology of day-in-life stories from different chat communities (Unix talk, . SAVED, PLATO, Community Memory, IRC, ICQ, BlackBerry, Slack). Focus on jargon, emergent practices, everyday habits, creative adaptations of the platform.
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(“Book idea” in all of the above is shorthand for something with the right amount of depth and breadth. Could also be a podcast series, a YouTube show, etc.)
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Book idea: When typography and engineering intersect. Don Knuth, segmented displays, bitmap fonts, monospace, HTML. Not just history – also stuff practical and useful today, e.g. how font fallback works, or weird Unicode letters. (Arguably the *obvious* book for me to write.)
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Marcin Wichary Retweeted Marcin Wichary
Book idea: One of these:https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/965692060534648832 …
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Marcin Wichary @mwicharyImagine the premiere Sony Walkman manual written today, explaining the differences from Spotify rather than from record players. Or an iPod user manual that’s presented as a discourse on record labels, DRM, and piracy. Or a manual to a TV written as a… fictional story.Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 15 likesShow this thread -
Marcin Wichary Retweeted Marcin Wichary
Book idea: A book version of the Museum of File Formats:https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/724323369798131712 …
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Book idea: Beautiful exploded 2.5D diagrams of pinball machines – one machine/spread for each 3–4 years between 1930s and 2000s – explaining the vocabulary, changing technology, new conventions, politics surrounding it. A lot of text around. *Not* just for pinball aficionados.
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Book idea: chasing and explaining trends and fashion in software engineering and design over the last few decades (flat design, cards everywhere, functional programming, JavaScript on the back-end, &c.) as a way to bring these two disciplines closer together.
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Book idea: Flavours of passive-aggressive in different cultures. Not a ha-ha-funny book, but genuinely trying to understand its function and differences as you move around the globe.pic.twitter.com/yTGMyMSAfT
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Marcin Wichary Retweeted Marcin Wichary
Book idea (inspired by
@todrobbins’s comment): Stories of unglamorous tech companies, for example many of those with the logos here. There must be a way to talk not of the companies in the spotlight, or the spectacular failures, but the bit players.https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/1001143262680305664 …Marcin Wichary added,
Marcin Wichary @mwicharyAccidentally stumbled upon this amazing treasure trove of hundreds of beautiful/awful 80s tech logos. It sort of feels like a version of that “Bobson Dugnutt” screen, but those are all real. https://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_unitedTechngineersMasterVol2_242068752/1985_Electronic_Engineers_Master_Vol_2#page/n389/mode/2up … pic.twitter.com/nzrajNstcDShow this thread2 replies 5 retweets 24 likesShow this thread -
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We live near the Tektronix museum,
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There’s a Tektronix museum!!!??!https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/817560435217965056 …
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Darius Kazemi Retweeted Darius Kazemi
I sent you this on my last visit!https://twitter.com/tinysubversions/status/986132500937240576?s=19 …
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