The good thing with AI now is that we don't have to dust off the old copies of The Print Shop to generate banners. 😅
The Print Shop was developed in the 1980s by someone at Broderbund, a maker of video games, educational software, and productivity tools.
It was the first popular software that gave non-technical users an easy way to create banners, signs, greeting cards, and simple graphics using clip art and bitmap fonts to be printed in tractor-feed dot-matrix printers. At that time, most printing required programming knowledge or professional tools.
It was a wild success and soon Broderbund would join the NASDAQ.
For some people, it enabled micro-scale commercial printing because with a home computer they started selling store banners, sale signs, party decorations/banners, event posters, etc.
It was an early form of platform-enabled gig work and it kind of democratized creativity and small-scale commerce.
What would be "The Print Shop" of today?
