Remember Desktop Publishing? And The Print Shop?

“The desktop publishing era, short as it was, did something really important: It turned the process of publishing into something anyone could do cheaply and professionally. … In its original form, [The Print Shop] was an ’80s-tastic program that redefined the parameters of print design into something that could literally be called child’s play. Today’s Tedium considers the ramifications of the software platform from which a million dot matrix paper banners were born.”