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Marcin Wichary
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Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens  · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him

San Francisco, Calif.
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    1. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 30 Dec 2018
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      I wonder sometimes what would be the oldest extant word based on technology no longer in use. Taping an interview? Dialing someone? https://twitter.com/hels/status/679059633949011970 …

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    2. Kim A. Bøe‏ @kimaboe 30 Dec 2018
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      Font is a good one, late 17th century. Still used for selling type, but several generations of obsolete tech later. In general there are a lot of words from printing, which makes sense, considering that printers preserved the written word, so their terminology survived.

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    3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 30 Dec 2018
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      But font feels like it doesn’t count because fonts still exist. They’re just a different/more modern version of the same idea. But I bet there must have been a device used for typesetting that’s no longer there, immortalized in some term…

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    4. Kim A. Bøe‏ @kimaboe 30 Dec 2018
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      Oh, for sure, Adobe software is full of them, 'leading', 'slug' and 'kerning' comes to mind.

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    5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 31 Dec 2018
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      Lead still exists. :·) Kerning was not a technology, though, right? Just a term? Slug feels the closest, except it’s not really in common use. Aah, this will drive me mad now.

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    6. Kim A. Bøe‏ @kimaboe 31 Dec 2018
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      Lead still exists, but leading is a specific product/tool used in typesetting, that is now obsolete and commercially unavailable. Kerning is a technique, grinding away at the letters using precise tools, whereas the software version achieves the effect using a different method :p

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    7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 31 Dec 2018
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      Sure! But both seem far from my original tweet. :·)

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    8. Jordan Stokes‏ @Floreustebius 31 Dec 2018
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      Uppercase/lowercase referred to actual cases for storing the bits of movable type, right?

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    9. James Polley‏ @tchaypo 31 Dec 2018
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      Replying to @Floreustebius @mwichary @kimaboe

      Don't forget "stereotype"

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    10. Kim A. Bøe‏ @kimaboe 31 Dec 2018
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      Replying to @tchaypo @Floreustebius @mwichary

      Not sure that one, or cliché, count, as they are basically slang applied to a completely different thing?

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      Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 31 Dec 2018
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      Yeah, that’s an interesting question. I like them both, though!

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        2. Kim A. Bøe‏ @kimaboe 31 Dec 2018
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          Ditto. My favourite printing etymology fact however, is that the Norwegian term “å falle i fisk” (‘to fall into fish’, meaning ’complete failure’) arises from the similarity of a collapsed forme of movable type to a swarm of silvery fish. :)pic.twitter.com/LqkwViw4L7

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        3. Kim A. Bøe‏ @kimaboe 31 Dec 2018
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          I quite enjoy the fact that all Norwegians know that falling into fish means your plans were foiled by unfortunate circumstances, but virtually no one knows why that is, or questions the logic.

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