“In the case of the PDF, what was crucial to its long-term success was the decision by the business that invented it to essentially give its creation away.”

Megan Morrone
Debugger
Published in
Jan 19, 2021

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“When is the last time you actually thought about PDFs?” asks Rob Walker in his excellent look into the 30-year-old tool we often take for granted. “The PDF is a digital equivalent to a paper clip or a ballpoint pen — an everyday tool so familiar it seems to have come out of nowhere, yet it’s hard to imagine its absence,” Walker writes.

Read the full story in Marker.

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