ESC keycap the logo of Netscape

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I cleary remember Netscape's death cry, namely, Netscape Navigator 4.0x. They enbugged the same bug twice often. CSS was worse than not implemented. I perfectly understood their development management is mess. Netscape killed themselves by poor management. The persons in charge are NOT the old cowboy programmers. Mistakenly employed, smooth tongued, street smart managers are the persons in charge.

Trying to print all sides once

I've got a new idea to print all sides once. I'm testing it now.



I think it is probable idea. Legend or image is difficult, but white-on-black printing may become practical.

ESC keycap Windows 3.1's boot screen

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Windows 3.1 and 95 was the most brilliant age of Microsoft. But in the day, almost no one thought Microsoft is the brilliant company. They made OS/2, Copland, Taligent, BeOS, and etc...

ESC keycap Ferrero's Nutella

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Real cyclists don't fear Nutella. I'm a cyclist too. My oddmeter is about 51000 km (31700 mi).

ESC keycap Napster

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Napster might be the most fallen brand in the history of mankind.

ESC keycap Lenna

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If you are familiar with image processing, you will be familiar with her too. This is very popular test image for image processing.

ESC keycap Photoshop 6.0's icon

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The proprietary software must go on. Or perfect OSS clone will appear.

ESC keycap road sign in Japan

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It indicates the place of a fire hydrant for fire engines. This sign exists really everywhere in the road of urban areas of Japan. Utility poles, traffic signals, and fire hydrant signs... they are typically Japanese road landscape.

ESC keycap Security Camera Sign in Japan

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The illustration is showing kabuki's traditional makeup, 'kumadori.' This illustration is widely used for security poster in Japan. The kabuki man is watching you!

ESC keycap Silicon Graphics' logo

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SGI's chassis was beautiful. Beautiful without any withholdings.

Many PC chassis vendors are trying to make beautiful chassis. Their all successes are under severe withholdings, namely, cost. Apple overrides cost by quantity. SGI and the users simply paid cost. I love such decision and the product.

ESC keycap Yokohama Tire's obsoleted mascot

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In Japan 1970s, fearful face picture was cool.



Every culture has its history. There was another age before manga/anime and yuru-chara.

ESC keycap Mondrian's Composition

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Most so called 'Mondrian' pattern has more vivid colors than this item. But the photos published from art museums show dark colors like this. Which is right? I've choosed latter.

ESC keycap pets.com's sock puppet

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We live in oblivion because we live in vast crap. AOL's CDs, for example. I've salvaged a crap from dot-com bubble. Let's reflect on our life in crap.

ESC keycap cigar store's signboard in Japan

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In Japan, cigar is taxables and government monopoly goods. So many cigar shops show uniformed signboard. This signboard is vintage design. Upper たばこ means tobacco and lower フコク生命 is the name of a life insurance company! It is vintage...

ESC keycap Lenin's portrait

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Guevara's portrait is very popular in Japan. In anywhere of Western Bloc too, I suppose. He is in the same place of Napoléon Bonaparte.

Lenin's portrait isn't as popular as Guevara. I feel that he keeps some solemnity even now, nevertheless thousands of mass production statues, foolish mummy, nearly a hundred years after he died, and dissolution of USSR. He isn't a has-been man yet. We are afraid of the comeback of Lenin and communists even now.

Gununu Alphabet keycaps

Do you know 'gununu'? It is the game for manga illustrators. The rule is simple but hard to explain by text and my poor English. Seeing is believing...



By the way, do you know the 'Request Custom Order' button in my Etsy shop?

ESC keycap Owl of BBC Micro

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I'm not familliar with BBC Micro. In 80's I've used a 8-bit machine, but it was far more powerful than BBC Micro. I'm one of the children who don't know pre-bitmap graphics age.

ESC keycap BeOS

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Anytime anywhere, young person always believes a revolution. I believed too... The decline of the despotism of 8080 family... I loved i860, PowerPC, DEC Alpha, and Itanium... I love ARM now.

ESC keycap Meiji Bulgaria Yogurt

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You may know Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans:



I know Campbell's soup can is very common and familiar in US. But knowing is different with feeling. I can understand the praises for the piece, but I cannot feel anything around the piece. This keycap is a tiny revenge for pop art from Japan.

ESC keycap Tux of Linux, KNOPPIX's Vitruvian version

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Tux is a super star. There are quite a lot of Tux pictures. The best is this, KNOPPIX's Vitruvian Tux, as far as I've ever seen.

ESC keycap exit sign

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The exit sign was designed by Japanese designer, Yukio Ota, in 1982. You may remember the age before the exit sign. The age of compact cassette, LP record, and FM...