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The change which dawned on books during the era of the Gutenberg Press wasn’t challenged until the arrival of the graphical personal computer.
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- This Book of Hours is an example of an illuminated manuscript from the 15th Century (Image from Flickr Commons — http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationallibrarynz_commons/6046620055/)
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- The Gutenberg Bible continued the tradition of decorative images. It took time for the images to disappear (Image from Flickr Commons — http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland/5372524524/)
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- This printed sheet of proposed amendments to the US Constitution in 1789 show how the art of printing had evolved since Gutenberg’s day. Gone are colors and decorations, replaced by full-justified text (image from Flickr Commons — http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/6629474601/)
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- Prior to the advent of the Graphical User Interface, computers had been entirely text-based (Image from Flickr Commons — http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/4401344940/)
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- The Macintosh pioneered the idea that making a computer visually could create an emotional bond between a user and product (Image from Flickr Commons — http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/4416711547/)
