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Post-It Notes - 25 Years of Hypertext in Paper
RexDart writes "A Minneapolis/St. Paul magazine, The Rake, has a fascinating article revealing the history and development of the humble, ubiquitous Post-It Note. An intriguing tale of a dedicated visionary working the system to bring an innovative product to life in a monolithic, tradition-bound organization." From the article: "Two and a half decades later, as the little yellow notes celebrate their silver anniversary, it's easy to forget what a recent innovation they are. Thanks to their material simplicity, they seem more closely related to workplace antiquities like the stapler and the hole-punch than integrated chips. Instead, they're an exemplary product of their time. Foreshadowing the web, they offered an easy way to link one piece of information to another in a precisely contextual way. Foreshadowing email, they made informal, asynchronous communication with your co-workers a major part of modern office life."
Would someone with mod points mind going back to the comments listed below and modding this page-widening, crap-flooding troll into oblivion? With enough downmods, we can ban his subnet from posting and/or nail his list of open proxies. Those of us browsing with smaller screens, especially, would appreciate your help.
I apologize for the offtopic nature of this request, but please keep it at this score for other moderators to see (i.e. don't mod me down). Thanks.
In just the last few days, we have received literally dozens of reports that Steven P. Jobs, the current CEO of Apple Computer, Inc., will personally be shaving all body hair from his corpus to be included in the plastics of special MAC mini's, in efforts to promote MAC mini pricedrops for this Christmas season.
Apple spokeshermaphrodite, Leslie Theresa Doe, stated, "This was the opportunity to get Mr. Jobs really involved in the MAC mini production. I mean, after all, he did steal the design from Amelio and Hancock!"
Being part German and part Italian, Jobs's body hair is expected to be found in no less than 15 different systems, all being distributed across the world. Lucky MAC mini purchasers who find the magic folicles will be flown to Apple's One Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino, California for a special day held by Apple staffers and hired help: local area barbers will be shaving the lucky winners' body hair as well! This is really a way to show the old Apple spirit is back!
Pluck some knowledge this way, baby. PLEASE!
Who knew that Romy and Michele also had a hand in creating the internet as well.