birdlab: an open process initiative

blackbird founders archive (vols.1–21)

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The 1978 documentary linked below is one that we show to interns every semester as we talk about the history of publishing and related technologies.  We highly recommend it.

Filmed on July 1, 1978, this documentary by David Loeb Weiss chronicles the end of “hot type” at The New York Times — and the introduction of computers into The Times’s printing process.

Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu

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