{"id":23597,"date":"2026-03-04T11:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23597"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:40:35","slug":"remembering-aldus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/04\/remembering-aldus\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Aldus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I got into the Mac scene just a touch too late to have interacted with Aldus (acquired by Adobe in 1994), and I&#8217;m sorry not to have known the late <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Brainerd\">Paul Brainerd<\/a>, who passed away a couple of weeks ago. To mark the occasion, some friends have been resharing this video, created when the company became part of the Big Red A. It&#8217;s fun to see a few familiar faces &amp; to remember the tech vibe of those early days: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Aldus Colophon - Aldus Corporation Corporate Goodbye\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jlnIzfAh19E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got into the Mac scene just a touch too late to have interacted with Aldus (acquired by Adobe in 1994), and I&#8217;m sorry not to have known the late Paul Brainerd, who passed away a couple of weeks ago. To mark the occasion, some friends have been resharing this video, created when the company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23632,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23597\/revisions\/23632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}