ClipShop was written by Bill Buckels in 1999. It is distributed as FreeWare with Open Source. Listed below are several topics that are related to ClipShop.
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PrintMaster and PrintShop at War
George Orwell on English writer James Hadley Chase's No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1939):
... the career of Mr. Chase shows how deep the American influence has already gone. Not only is he himself living a continuous fantasy-life in the Chicago underworld, but he can count on hundreds of thousands of readers who know what is meant by a 'CLIPSHOP' or the 'hotsquat' do not have to do mental arithmetic when confronted by 'fifty grand ' and understand at sight a sentence like 'Johnny was a rummy and only two jumps ahead of the nut-factory'. Evidently there are great numbers of English people who are partly Americanized in language and one ought to add, in moral outlook '
(George Orwell, 1970, Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters, Vol 3 of 4. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Orwell's observation written 30 years ago doesn't mention the impermanence of "the American influence". Some of the "slang" that may have seen commonplace use in Chicago in 1939 is barely understood today. It is almost as if language is a commodity, and once consumed needs to change to keep itself interesting to its consumers.
And like language in Orwell's day, and even if you are a Canadian Software Developer, nothing right now seems any more Culturally "American" (and Impermanent) than Software...
A ClipShop in 1939 Chicago was probably a place where you went to have your money taken from you (A.K.A. a "ClipJoint"). But in 1999, an Internet search for the term "ClipShop" turned-up practically nothing, except Orwell's quote. It was for that reason of uniqueness as well as being a good description for the program that the name ClipShop was chosen.
As it turns out, the computer has accelerated the changing "American Influence" much more than Orwell could ever have imagined. It is almost ironic that the "PrintShop" and "PrintMaster" Clip Art Libraries that are used by ClipShop are orphans now, and do not even exist on their respective websites. It is as if they had never even existed. Yet 10 years ago (not 60) they were "on the tips of everyone's tongues..."
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