About Liner Notes
Liner Notes is the daily page of a small network of reference sites. Each of those sites — Keychord, Fontduet, Glyphchord, Mimechord and the rest — is built around deep, fact-checked lore about one corner of technology's history: the symbols we type, the fonts we set, the plugs we plug in, the notes we tune to. This is where that lore gets read aloud, one story at a time.
Think of the thirteen sites as the record, and this as the sleeve it came in — the liner notes: the printed page inside the jacket where the stories behind the tracks are told. Every morning, one exhibit is set here in full — a relic, a biography, a small history — with a line-art mark drawn in the network's own hand and a link back to the site that owns the full record.
The pool holds 86 exhibits drawn from 13 sister sites, and the day's pick is deterministic: it is computed from the date alone, so everyone opening the page on the same day sees the same story, and it rotates on its own without anyone pressing a button. There is no database and no cron job — just the calendar and a fixed shuffle. That is why a given day always renders the same exhibit, forever.
The first issue is dated 2026-07-06 — No. 1. Every day since has its own issue number, printed on the page like a catalogue mark. Yesterday's exhibit is always one step back; tomorrow's waits until tomorrow, which is the whole point of a page worth returning to.
Nothing here invents facts. Every story is rewritten in this page's voice from lore the source site had already checked — dates, names and numbers preserved, prose fresh. If a sister site had no story worth telling, it simply isn't represented; the pool is honest about what the network actually knows.
Spotted an error, or want to suggest a story? Email howdy@linernotes.day.