I spent the last few days compiling a History of DTP for the enlightenment of my Fall Desktop Publishing class. What should have taken me a few hours, became a two day project as I scoured the Web, finding ever more interesting material.
I learned Illustrator 88 in 1988, when no one knew much about it. We had only the confusing manuals to guide us. I recall weeping in frustration into my keyboard over the Pen Tool. The program shipped on a floppy disk.
Photoshop debuted late in 1989. At that time, there were no consumer level scanners, digital cameras or color printers. To get prints of our Photoshop files, we set up film cameras on tripods in front of our computer monitors and shot film.
We had no idea of being deprived. We were too busy learning exciting new skills.
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