We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. We speak to you from our present, which we can only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century.

Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this monumental

reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost.

So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our transmissions,

this is our legacy to you. This is our time capsule. This is the

omnibus. So, You have accessed entry 248.2c1009, certificate number 548 661. Comic Sans.

All right, let's get to work.

I feel like we can beat this font.

Ah, copper plate, a font for the truly modern man.

Ha, no.

There you are, Verdana.

Oh, comic sons, you drunk, go home. Now I know you care about fonts.

Deeply.

And not in a person, like I came to it very honestly.

Go on.

I had it

a desktop publishing software in 1991

sure when nobody had it like I think my dad had just bought like the first laser

printer I had ever seen. This is pre-proliferation. Yeah, we just had those dot matrix printers that

went zip zip zip zip zip and had the holes on the side on the perforated papers. Yep. And I was the editor of the high school yearbook as I think I've said before and I did not

like the typesetting stuff that they were going to do and so I pretty much did I laid the whole thing out at home on an Atari ST computer.

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