Things that will be impossible to explain two generations hence.

[hirez]

Sometimes when the people on the television want to you pay special attention to words because they think they are scientific or futuristic, they will make them appear slowly from left to right accompanied by a squelchy chattering noise like someone scraping TO220-packaged transistors down a sheet of galvanised steel.

Transistors? They were the things that made HH 100W combos sound post-punk and collectivist.

Post-punk? That was the soundtrack the day industry decided to stop.

Comments

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

How did it come to be that 'futuristic' and 'football scores' shared the same visual effect ?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Isn't it.

One of the odder typographical effects I've noticed is one where the notional 'print head' rattles through a random-looking sequence of characters before selecting one and moving on. Something halfway between a nixie tube and a barrel printer.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

I wonder if it is a half-forgotten folk-memory of looking at the back of the golfball as it printed ?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Somewhere between that and the Matrix effects, perhaps.

I recall that the footer teleprinter only jigged up and down when idling...

[FX: Google, wikipeejah, etc]

... Cor. This is excellent (description of plan 55-A, which is the best name for anything ever) http://www.webcitation.org/5gOoc3dQf