Fits in with the new aesthetics here.
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I was thinking xkcd: File Extensions (specifically, the title text)
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So. Basically what my grandfather did for a living.
I imagine some misspellings were intentional (missle?) as part of the technique for doing this, which I think makes it less impressive.
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There are 217 instances of ‘missle’ in the document, and none of ‘missile’, which suggests that’s just how the author spells it. It certainly seemed to be an accepted spelling on USENET, especially with posters from the USA.
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Probably because of my line of work, before I opened the tweet thread I noticed the forced justification, right after I noticed that the author was also “indenting” the margins on each side of the page to indicate its information hierarchy.
Related awe/amazement/aghast: I met an old man two years ago that wrote his papers and articles in Excel. It was the one app he knew, so each line was on a row. Any insertion of a word in a paragraph might mean re-distributing the spillover words, cell by cell.
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This is why I know I’m not Sherlock Holmes. I noticed the justification and simply assumed it was a product of the formatting, not manual typographic and word choices. I’m always impressed by these little hidden artistic choices people make in their day-to-day hobbies and jobs.
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Will nobody think of the boumas?
And overhanging punctuation please.
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Ten points for style. Minus several thousand points for hanging a widow like that.
Unix man pages are written this way. There are programs to doing this type of editing that have been around from the 1970’s.
See groff (software) - Wikipedia
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When I was doing development, I always did, but that’s because I’ve had to maintain code I inherited from someone who should never have been allowed near the source in the first place. Now I’m doing IT Support (and Web administration) for a library (yay). I actually made the suggestion today that I could take up documenting all of our processes, update our asset lists, and other related tasks that no one else ever wants to do!
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you’re hired! 
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Thank you, but I have to admit (brag?) that I am ecstatic to be working for this library! It was kind of weird to go to an interview where I could answer the question of “why do you want to work here” without desperately avoiding “because you’ll pay me.” It took me several days after the interview to realize I’d never actually asked about the salary; it just didn’t matter that much, as the job hit all of my criteria!
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And that it has a sha-1 of dead-beef-cafe-face-aced-deaf-dace-feed-bead-fade
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