1. Vladimer Lenin said "there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks in which
decades happen"
2. Gutenberg Invented the printing press in the 15th century
3. Black letter a font used by gutenberg in the first printing press. Downside: limited number of
words per page
4. Roman Typeface 2nd font invented in 1470 by Nicolas Jenson (more words per page)
5. italics 3rd font invented (1501) to save space (by Manutius & Griffo).
6. Digital typogra- Fonts in computer. 1st font: Digi Grotesk (by Rudolf Hell). In 1974 fonts changed
phy from pictures to vector, so they can look good in any scale
7. Truetype font looks the same in PC and printer
8. opentype font looks the same in PC and mac
9. Web Open Font fonts looking the same in all browser in the internet
Format (WOFF)
10. Aptos Font that microsoft chose in 2021 to be the default in its apps (e.g., Word). Old
name: Bierstadt (beer city). Town in california
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11. word's fonts 1st: Times New Roman (Serif)
2nd (2007): Calibri (sans serif)
3rd: Aptos (sans serif)
12. Serif vs. sans serif with tiny lines (feet), e.g. Times new Roman, common in print vs. without (e.g.
Calibri/Aptos), common in screens
13. London Under- 100 years used Johnstons Sans font. In 2016 did tiny change to Johnston 100 font,
ground's fonts to make it digitally friendly
14. US Department 1) Courier ("typewriter" and old computers font", IBM, serif)
of states' fonts 2) Times New Roman (Word): 2004
3) Calibri (2023): changed to help visually impaired workers
15. Thomas Phinney Works in Adobe's font group, helped in court as font expert to check forgery.
Document supposedly from 1983 was printed in inkjet printer (invented late 80s).
Document from 1968 used font inventes 25 years later.
16. ScienceGoth- site allows user to personally adjust a Sceince Gothic font (Thomas Pinney)
ic.com
17. Sentence with all The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
letters in english
once
18. self checkout Paying in supermarket through a machine. Wlamart & Cotsoco's customers com-
plained it is slow and unreliable, and prefer satffed cash registers.
19. Joe Woodland Inventor of barcode
20. bar code Invented in 1974 in USA by Woodland. Inspired by Morse code. Before seller had
to type price of each product, and it was slow
21. UPC Universal Product Code used in bar code
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22. Amazon Go Shop that you don't to check out at all. You just take staff from shelves, and AI
understands how much you pay. Just walk out.
23. Just walk out Technology of Amazon go for a shop with no check out
24. QR code quick response code. invented in 1984 in Japan
25. QR codes in began in the pandemic. there were QR codes on the tables that sent to digital
restaurants menus instead of physical menus.
26. criticism of QR disturb communal aspect, make you check notifications, are less convenient, can
codes in restau- track consumer behavior, exclude less tech savvy people, and more
rants
27. L. Sasha Gora cultural historian that studies culinary environmental humanities (cultural aspects
to do with food). studied menus and the passenger pigeon pie.
28. Caroline S. An American sculptor. Made butter sculptures to promote her farmer husband's
Brooks butter.
29. Dreaming Iolan- butter sculpture of a blind princess from the verse drama, "King René's Daughter".
the made by Caroline S. Brooks.
30. Erika Iris Sim- an artist that used old cassette tapes to portray celibraties and musician, specifi-
mons cally the artists of the tapes' song.
31. cassette tape A tape storage media introduced in the 1960s in which the tape was enclosed in
a small plastic molding, or cassette.
32. Dominique a Canadian artist that made Missa
Blaine
33. Missa 100 army boots symbolising the victims of war. made by Dominique Blaine. shown
in Mauntrial.