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19th February 2000

CrumpledPapers.com

“An electic collection of graphic art, web design, inspirational musings, poetry, quotes, humor, e-greetings and whatever else we can think of to amuse and inspire the creative side of ourselves and you at the same time.”

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19th February 2000

HTML Test Pattern

“This document was designed to test how your browser formats various HTML tags. I’ve stopped working on this file for the most part… I haven’t been able to keep up with the changes in HTML. This is primarily a useful tool for seeing how your browser formats basic stuff.”

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19th February 2000

From Darkroom to Desktop — How Photoshop Came to Light

“Ten years ago this month, Adobe shipped Photoshop 1.0. ‘Has it really been that long?’ It has. The story of one of the original ‘killer apps’ begins in Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) with a college professor named Glenn Knoll. Glenn was a photo enthusiast who maintained a darkroom in the family basement. He was also a technology aficionado intrigued by the emergence of the personal computer. His two sons, Thomas and John, inherited their father’s inquisitive nature. And the vision for future greatness began with their exposure to Glenn’s basement darkroom and with the Apple II Plus that he brought home for research projects.”

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19th February 2000

Evolution of Alphabets

A really cool group of .gif animations that show how alphabets have changed. Includes Cuneiform, Phoenician, Greek, Arabic, Square Aramaic/Hebrew, Modern Cyrillic and Latin.

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19th February 2000

Understanding XSLT

“The most important thing to learn from this article is that XSLT does a lot more than apply style. When put through an XSLT processor, the information in the XML source document will be evaluated, rearranged, then reassembled. What you end up with is not just a pretty version of the XML data — rather, you get flexible source information that can be easily added to, modified, or reordered. This end product is called the Result Tree.”

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