I remember an old cartoon in which a crowd was gathered around the Times zipper and would try to read the headline out loud before it disappeared, getting louder and faster as the end came around; their heads following the "zip" like hungry baby birds. Lost to history now I suppose.
Fun-ny! Very clever and well written. Now I'll search for what else Caity Weaver has written.
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I needed to know the background of chyron. This is making my day.
Caity Weaver, this is definitely the best news I read all day. My mind is blown.
Since it's the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, I felt I should point out that NASA was able to superimpose text such as “LIVE FROM THE SURFACE OF THE MOON” over its lunar video feeds (albeit in crude dot-matrix type) well before Chiron, or Chyron, was a thing. But hey, they were NASA...
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