The Modern Desk
An apps and accessories newsletter for creatives.
The Modern Desk launched on February 2, 2015 with 79 votes, #559 of 1,772 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.
What it does
For those of you who are relatively new to this site, you may be wondering to yourself why there is an entire site dedicated to the “modern desk”. As the namesake of this site, we thought it would be very prudent to discuss explain what the term “modern desk” means to us, and why it is so important in today’s day and age. To start off though, we need to describe a history of the American workplace. Back in the 20 th century, a lot of work was of the blue-collar variety, especially in places such as the rust belt. Jobs such as coal mining or factory and assembly line work were the most prevalent jobs back then, rather than jobs that relied less on manual labor and more on working with…from themoderndesk.com
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