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While working on my ebook I suddenly realized that I don't actually know anything about PDFs. I know that Adobe made them, but not much else https://t.co/WfrqBAQNKw
TIL that Adobe is named after Adobe creek, which ran behind founder John Warnock's house. Some say it is a pretty nice creek. Others say it's kinda small and moldy. The creek has mallards https://t.co/xXQnMkCL3L https://t.co/Tdk8zfmhx8
also TIL that Steve Jobs tried to buy Adobe for $5m in 1982. Lots of interesting backstory in the Apple/Adobe relationship https://t.co/XJQAHFYxME
Also this rabbithole got me to rediscover Steve Jobs' 2010 "Thoughts on Flash" – I remember vaguely hearing about this drama (I didn't use any Apple products at the time so I didn't care) Steve was such a skilful communicator https://t.co/cXlyatfvHz https://t.co/gxWkNLzbip
TIL that PDF was made by a team called Camelot – and wow, you can find the actual document (it's... a 6-page PDF) https://t.co/PILKKNCzWT https://t.co/8Sx5nClMAn
