<story><title>The story of the first “computer bug” is a pile of lies</title><url>https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-story-of-the-first-computer-bug</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrhektor</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d just like to say that Thomas Edison&amp;#x27;s handwriting in his letter is absolutely beautiful. It almost looks like it&amp;#x27;s been typed out on a computer using a funky font.
It&amp;#x27;s funny how the handwriting of almost everyone I know is quite bad these days. My own is almost illegible! I wonder what everyone thinks about this general degradation in penmanship? I guess it&amp;#x27;s not really needed in this day and age, but there&amp;#x27;s something beautiful about nice handwriting on paper.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edanm</author><text>I remembered someone once posted about Dijkstra&amp;#x27;s handwriting being incredible, so I tracked down the link for you, see the third image on that page for an example: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;joshldavis.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;20&amp;#x2F;the-path-to-dijkstras-handwriting&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;joshldavis.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;20&amp;#x2F;the-path-to-dijkstras-hand...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The whole blog is about trying to write like Dijkstra.</text></comment>
<story><title>The story of the first “computer bug” is a pile of lies</title><url>https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-story-of-the-first-computer-bug</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrhektor</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d just like to say that Thomas Edison&amp;#x27;s handwriting in his letter is absolutely beautiful. It almost looks like it&amp;#x27;s been typed out on a computer using a funky font.
It&amp;#x27;s funny how the handwriting of almost everyone I know is quite bad these days. My own is almost illegible! I wonder what everyone thinks about this general degradation in penmanship? I guess it&amp;#x27;s not really needed in this day and age, but there&amp;#x27;s something beautiful about nice handwriting on paper.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>type0</author><text>In those days people took pride in their handwriting, nowadays the best you can do is to brag about your &lt;i&gt;LaTeX&lt;/i&gt; typesetting</text></comment>