Your Slice of History
Like thousands of others, I too got the idea of picking up a dead-tree edition of a newspaper to preserve the moment of Obama’s victory. I drove out to the local Starbucks at 7am and picked up a copy of the New York Times. I was glad to see his name in a large 96-pt type headline. Kottke tells us that NYT has used this large a font on only four other occasions – moon landing, Nixon resignation, 1/1/2000, and 9/11. I’m glad I got my own copy because copies are now sold out and are selling on eBay for more than $100. The Times has promised to sell more copies from their online store but the site is down right now or you could get a scanned copy here. The Chicago Tribune front page is impressive too. In case you’re interested in taking a look at how other newspapers declared this news on November 5th, you might want to check out this video:
