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20th December 2000

Type Fundamentals for Nondesigners

“You know all about the <font> tag. You’ve tried CSS on for style. And naturally, you can create a good-looking, well-optimized Web graphic. But how much do you know about the fundamentals of typography?”

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20th December 2000

Information Architecture

“This lesson discusses ideas associated with the phrase ‘information architecture’ and relates them to aspects of the library- and information-science (LIS) professions.” Focuses on Wurman, Rosenfeld and Norville.

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20th December 2000

The First E-Mail Message

“Sometime in late 1971, a computer engineer named Ray Tomlinson sent the first e-mail message. ‘I sent a number of test messages to myself from one machine to the other,’ he recalls now. ‘The test messages were entirely forgettable… Most likely the first message was QWERTYIOP or something similar.’”

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20th December 2000

Color charts and color wheels

“A useful and interesting collection of links to color charts and wheels around the web.”

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