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user-inactivated · 3418 days ago · link · · parent · post: What if journalists had story writing tools as powerful as those used by coders?
Linotypes are waymoreawesome than ruby. Field offices around the world were the best tool they had. Those are gone. The tools don't make the network. The people and the paid positions did.
I have a lot of experience both using and fixing (and running used pigs to the recycler--in Chicago from Ann Arbor) linotype machines. While they are fun and have a nostalgia, they are pretty much useless to anyone who isn't doing custom bookbinding, for example (I'm sure there are still other uses). They do not have a built in spell checker.