But that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily wrong. This one is likely going to be controversial with someone, which I fully admit is true. Platform: Groundbreaking-but-failed computer platform that inspired the GUI-based world in which we live (Oh yeah, quick reminder of what makes things obscure, from our point of view.) - Ernie Tedium So in a continuation of our list of things that didn’t make it, Today’s Tedium takes a look at 10 early examples of desktop publishing software that you probably don’t remember desktop publishing was a killer app nearly 40 years ago and you were in diapers back then … if you existed at all. And while we’ve landed on a few standards, a lot of desktop publishing tools failed to make to it the present day. And with the decline of print as a medium, it can feel kind of old hat, but lots of stuff still gets typeset every single day.
While at its heart a mishmash of hardware and software cleverly combined for a single goal, it was an empire builder, one that helped create new businesses and improve the status and positioning of existing ones. Today in Tedium: It’s easy to forget now, but desktop publishing was an immensely innovative thing when it emerged within the computing industry in the early ’80s.
