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NASA Before PowerPoint in 1961 (imgur.com)
16 points by ohjeez on May 3, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Pretty sure people knew how to make slide based presentations since well before computers existed. And I somehow doubt that NASA's primary use of PowerPoint today is for presenting complicated mathematical equations. But hey, clickbait title gonna clickbait.

Still a cool picture. Not sure why they decided tall blackboard + ladders was better than multiple normal blackboards at ground level. But then these are the guys who built this[1] so they didn't have to lay their rockets down when assembling them.

As for the equations, I'm no mathematician, so I wonder if people of that ilk still find use in sketching out their ideas on a black or white board. Or is it all LaTeX and matlab these days?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building




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