The Utah Independent Telephone Co. provided election results to callers. The Herald-Republican (Salt Lake City, Utah), Nov. 2, 1909
In 1912, the Edgefield (S.C.) Advertiser told readers to call its offices on election night for results
View of the electoral map of the United States at Midnight. San Francisco Call (1900)
The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is here that the stereotype of the programmer, sitting in a dim room, growling from behind Coke cans, has its origins. The disorder of the desk, the floor; the yellow Post-it notes everywhere; the whiteboards covered with scrawl: all this is the outward manifestation of the messiness of human thought. The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.
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Highlighted by Martin McClellan in Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents by Ullman, Ellen (via hellbox)
This may be why the best programmers are some of the most anxiety-ridden people you’ll meet.
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