The urge to keep all the tabs open is not a recent thing.
Pictured: a 300-year-old library tool that enabled a researcher to have seven books open at once, yet conveniently nearby (Palafoxiana Library, Puebla)
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@globalmuseum Looks like they already had vertical tabs back then!
@globalmuseum this would surely fix me
@globalmuseum if you bring a librarian home and have this in your office, you're having sex
@globalmuseum Might make for a fun thing to build, and useful to boot!
Other researchers in the library talkin' shit: Gilbert makes his wheel squeak so we can hear him spin it furiously like he's onto something good, the poor wailing thing laden with fat tomes of prop cachet. His last paper was a picture of a chicken playing tic-tac-toe and read 'No matter who we play, as long as we are made to go second, it may as well be a damn chicken, buddy.'
@globalmuseum look how far we've come, instead of a researcher accessing multiple books at once, now a tech bro can access the minds of a million researchers.
Some habits really are timeless; I can’t resist having at least five books open at once.
Analogue browser tabs.
