No. 008 · 1982 · Los Altos

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Xerox wouldn't ship it, so they left and did.

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  1. 1 1982. Two Xerox PARC researchers solve print.
  2. 2 Xerox passes. Again.
  3. 3 They name the company after a creek behind a house.
  4. 4 PostScript: any page, any printer.
  5. 5 Steve Jobs comes calling for a laser printer.
  6. 6 Desktop publishing is born.
  7. 7 Every designer alive learns their tools.
  8. 8 Then comes the subscription.
Founders
John Warnock and Charles Geschke
Founded
1982, Los Altos
What they do
Photoshop, Acrobat and the rest of the creative toolkit.

The story

Xerox wouldn't commercialize their work, so the two PARC researchers left and built PostScript. Steve Jobs put it in the LaserWriter, and desktop publishing followed.