Doodle forerunners for Flickr, Twitter, etc

Deeplinking has collected the paper sketches that gave birth to Twitter, Flickr, Vimeo, Abiword, mySociety, and others. Shown here, an early Twitter (stat.us) sketch, from Jack Dorsey's Flickr stream. My own contribution to the archiving of this stuff are my pics of Raph Koster's original, hand-drawn Ultima Online map. Link (via Waxy)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Ultima Online you say? no picture goodness there is. *frowny face*
Psymiley

Would be so nice if managers could do this too; would give them a scope of what can fit on screen.

And none of the “where you think’s best”, which end’s up:

- Here?

> No.

- Here?

> No.

- Here??

> Nope.

etc…