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USPS introduced self-adhesive stamps in the early 1990s, and by 2010, licking postage stamps was almost nonexistent (and not a moment too soon to guard against SF extortion plots!)
My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s
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The other day, a colleague asked if I knew where a local restaurant was. I popped the restaurant’s card up from Newton’s Names file. While he was looking for a piece of paper to write the address on, I spotted an HP LaserJet 5MP in the corner. I pointed my Newton at it, tapped Print, and by the time my friend found a sheet of paper, I had a printed address to hand him.
Reflections on Life Without Newton - TidBITS
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I analyze The Times’ newsmaking practice as one that aimed less to garner the attention of a certain public than to generate what I follow Michael Warner (2002) in describing as a certain kind of publicness. Warner points out that __media texts constitute their publics not by actually garnering the attention of a particular group of readers, but simply by addressing themselves to a public and thereby creating the possibility of their garnering this public’s attention.__ I look at how The Times’ journalists produced and published many news articles that in their own opinion were unlikely to be read by many actual news readers but which nevertheless served to create this possibility—or to generate this sense of their news platform’s publicness on which its survival as a business depended.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
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