Cthulhu Who?

Cthulhu. You've probably seen the imagery before and then again, and not known exactly what
the significance was. 

Seriously, this character has shown up in art, posters, plush dolls, tee shirts, and more.
Cthulhu has been the subject of fan fiction, role-playing games, and costumes. His (Her?)
popularity has gained recently, but did you know that is fictional character has been around for... 


84 years?


You can thank H.P. Lovecraft for masterminding this character in 1926, first appearing in a
short story titled "Call of Cthulhu". Described as appearing as a cross between a human, a dragon,
and an octopus, Cthulhu is said to drive away a person's sanity merely glimpsing his form.

Sanity: Defeated

WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG stands for What You See Is What You Get. It was a term that described something that was alien at the time it was conceived. What you saw on the screen was very much similar to what you got when you produced. It was how they described the first GUI, or Graphical User Interface. The first consumer GUI was released in 1981. The GUI allowed the user to see pictures, rather than just text, and was a major leap forward. 

Although it may not seem so today.

Magic has come a long way.

When I first started playing Magic: The Gathering, a collectible card game, I was in 8th grade. Not to date myself here, but the game came out in 1993. I started playing about a year after it was released. I played for maybe a few years before shelving my collection. During the time that I played, the design of the cards changed very little. For example, when I began, they looked like this:

Many sets later, they looked like this:

The art got a little better, but the design format remained largely the same. It has been only recently that I picked the game back up again, leaving an 8 year gap unexplored. So how much has changed? Not a lot. The game still plays the same. The words are largely still in the same spot, but the cards have changed a little... oh, and the art has gotten a lot better: