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Mike

@Heliograph Would be amusing to start the rumor that the arrangement of letters in that box was chosen to prevent typesetters from colliding with each other reaching for adjacent letters and getting stuck

12 May at 12:41 | Open on mastodon.social
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EineKleine

@Heliograph My 1960’s high school required boys to take shop (girls took home ec) including a term of print shop. The first week included memorizing the lower case layout. Later we locked a page, inked the platen, and printed.
12 May at 12:54 | Open on mastodon.world
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good morning to #caturday dear curious creatures :ablobwave: :blobcat_0w0: :BigBlobhajHug:
19 January at 21:40 | Open on mastodon.au
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Elizabeth Sheedy

@Heliograph This is exactly the kind of small delight that makes Mastodon so enjoyable!

9 Dec 2023 at 12:55 | Open on mastodon.social
Havyhh2

@Heliograph I will, from time till time over the next week, burst out laughing when I recall this…..

9 Dec 2023 at 13:05 | Open on mas.to
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👀 #TIL Monopoly wasn't invented by the Parker Brothers, nor the man they gave it credit for. In 1904, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord's Game, and was invented by a radical woman. Elizabeth Magie's original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from.
One was called "Prosperity", where every player won money anytime another gained a property. And the game was won by everyone playing only when the person with the least doubled their resources. A game of collaboration and social good.
The second set of rules was called "Monopoly", where players succeeded by taking properties and rent from those with less luck rolling the dice. The winner was the person who used their power to eliminate everyone else.
Magie's mission was to teach us how different we feel when playing Prosperity vs Monopoly, hoping that it would one day change national policies.
When the Parker Bros adopted the game, they erased the "Prosperity" rules and celebrated "Monopoly".
#ElizabethMagie #Monopoly #Landlord
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👀 #TIL Monopoly wasn't invented by the Parker Brothers, nor the man they gave it credit for. In 1904, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord's Game, and was invented by a radical woman. Elizabeth Magie's original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from.
One was called "Prosperity", where every player won money anytime another gained a property. And the game was won by everyone playing only when the person with the least doubled their resources. A game of collaboration and social good.
9 May 2023 at 8:31 | Open on mastodon.au
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Ariel Kroon

@Heliograph I wanna play Prosperity - both the game and irl.

15 May 2023 at 13:28 | Open on wandering.shop
Bärchelor of Science

@Heliograph I can't believe this being true and we all only played monopoly all the time, when there would've been a prosperity version.

15 May 2023 at 14:54 | Open on social.tchncs.de
odo2063

@Heliograph Are the rules accessible somewhere?

15 May 2023 at 16:17 | Open on chaos.social
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