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Are Subconscious Files the origin of Tag Clouds?
This is what the Wikipedia entry for Tag Cloud suggests.
From Douglas Coupland best-seller Microserfs, what could be the first tag cloud, ante-litteram.
My computer's subconscious files continue still to surprise me. Who would have known that these are the words my machine wanted to speak? Well, actually, I know that it's me speaking through the computer, sort of like those really quiet guys who go all nuts when you give them a wooden puppet - ventriloquists - and these aspects of their personalities you didn't even know existed start screaming out.
The first Tag Cloud?
- Welcome to Macintosh
- Carl's Jr.
- Gore-Tex®
- gray metallic Saabs
- Barry Diller KISS
- mini-bars ads for pearls outer space
- manufacture dungeons
- magazine scent strips
- Bell Atlantic
- phone jacks
- F-16
- Calvin Klein
- bourgeois decay images
- Upload
- Sparkletts
- frequent flyer points Oscar de la Renta minimum wage
- flame broiled
- switchbox
- the DMV
- MiG-29
- Han Solo
- Download
- Drive
- Tori Spelling
- Advil
- Rosslyn You jerk
- Kotex
- Langley
- Lee Press-ons
Microserfs
Douglas Coupland. Harpercollins, 1995.
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