I was interested until I hit this sentence:
I use PHP as my language of choice in a day-to-day basis, and this is no exception.
Why?
Likely because it’s
$current_yearand there are better choices available.
I can’t stand the screeching of a dot matrix printer. The correct way to print the news is with a teletype.
Perhaps a daisy wheel printer is an acceptable middle ground
What about the Selectric Typing-ball?
Not even two weeks ago.
This is the future we were promised
So, a newspaper with a lot of extra steps? I understand the gee whizness of getting this all to work but not really sure there’s a solid “why” to this.
Yeah, but I don’t know whether you’ve recently taken a look in one of the local newspapers— being able to select topics you want to read about may very well be worth the extra effort (also, fun of course)
You aren’t actually forced to read every article in a newspaper. Though you will have to scan over the headlines, so you will have a small awareness of things happening in the world. But is that a bad thing?
There are pictures and ads in a newspaper. This is much more minimalistic.
