From 92377d3af2004d652b3af0a8655af88aaa68a1b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zach Smith Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2022 10:02:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add note --- notes/text.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) create mode 100644 notes/text.md diff --git a/notes/text.md b/notes/text.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..64b3bae --- /dev/null +++ b/notes/text.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Before textual technologies, there was no text. Before computers and word +processors dealt with fixed 1-dimensional arrays of characters, typewriters +placed letters in a grid---but not a particularly fixed one--- anywhere on a +page, and the letters intermingled with writing and white-out and whatever else +you could stick on. Before typewriters imposed (or suggested) the grid, to +write by hand was to suggest your own lines, to form letters as necessary and +useful, to cross out, underline, squiggle. Before that, what? Figures? A little +arithmetic, a little ritual signification? At a certain point there wasn't even +the 2-dimensional plane. -- 2.34.2