fun fact: all @paulg essays have .gif images as titles.
Anti-scraping, better typography, or just a weird quirk of viaweb site generator?pic.twitter.com/EPmZsnqDzy
Because it's generated by software written before browsers had good fonts. That's how you got control of fonts in the 1990s.
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Programming the browser was and is a hostile environment. It's almost as if hostility is a
#Lindy property of web programming.
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Some of us had to open Photoshop and manually create those text images - it was uphill both ways!
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I genuinely learned while reading this tweet that not everybody did it manually in PS
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Finally I've got my answer
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big “before good browser” energy
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I very much appreciate this throwback. I remember installing Cufon and it converting text to font images automatically via Javascript. Felt like magic. Is http://paulgraham.com the last remaining install of the original Viaweb codebase in production?
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...and well into the 2000s
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That's actually genius
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I must admit, I appreciate the minimalist design of your website.
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So, two out of three, then. Better typography *and* weird historical quirk.
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