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1119 clicks; posted to STEM » on 07 Feb 2023 at 7:55 PM (7 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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Olympic Trolling Judge
2023-02-07 8:00:51 PM  
Not any more, it doesn't.
 
Barricaded Gunman
2023-02-07 8:29:14 PM  
FTFA: I've come across many stories over the years of why Qwerty is the way it is. That's the one about being able to type out the word "typewriter" on one row or the idea of spreading out the vowels to slow down typists.

As 1990's chatroom veterans can attest, it's also particularly helpful to be able to type the word "erect" using only your left hand.

/ASL?
 
baron von doodle [OhFark]
2023-02-07 9:17:25 PM  

Barricaded Gunman: FTFA: I've come across many stories over the years of why Qwerty is the way it is. That's the one about being able to type out the word "typewriter" on one row or the idea of spreading out the vowels to slow down typists.

As 1990's chatroom veterans can attest, it's also particularly helpful to be able to type the word "erect" using only your left hand.

/ASL?


The only available punctuation on the left is an exclamation point. So...
 
morg
2023-02-07 9:56:26 PM  

Olympic Trolling Judge: Not any more, it doesn't.


lol, I thought you were making a play on "But I shift from there!"
 
SBinRR [OhFark]
2023-02-07 10:02:35 PM  
When I think back to the courses and classes I took in high school in the 80s, I realize the most beneficial class I took wasn't the college prep or AP classes. It was Typing.
 
LoneVVolf
2023-02-07 10:48:54 PM  

Barricaded Gunman: As 1990's chatroom veterans can attest, it's also particularly helpful to be able to type the word "erect" using only your left hand.


You can tell alot about how someone grew up by whether they bat with their mouse hand or keyboard hand.
 
TempsSontFous [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 5:51:49 AM  
I've been typing since I was 9 years old (I'm 70 now). Learned touch-typing from my mother on an old Remington. Fell in love with the IBM Selectric in typing class in high school. Actually typed so fast on it once that it jammed and the metal strip that moves the print head snapped and sproinged out the top of the typewriter. My teacher was actually impressed by that.

And the original reason for the QWERTY layout was to keep the type bars from jamming together. Mostly. Still happened, though.
 
sensitive yet dangerous
2023-02-08 7:15:29 AM  

LoneVVolf: Barricaded Gunman: As 1990's chatroom veterans can attest, it's also particularly helpful to be able to type the word "erect" using only your left hand.

You can tell alot about how someone grew up by whether they bat with their mouse hand or keyboard hand.


Is "bat" a euphemism? Because if it is, yeah I totally use my non-dominant hand for that. The other hand works the mouse.
 
LoneVVolf
2023-02-08 7:58:05 AM  

sensitive yet dangerous: Is "bat" a euphemism? Because if it is, yeah I totally use my non-dominant hand for that. The other hand works the mouse.


Yup!  I actually switch hit midway through development, with the addition of internet access.  Went from needing my left hand to hold physical media, to needing my right hand for operating a mouse.  Strange and exciting times.
 
baron von doodle [OhFark]
2023-02-08 11:10:42 AM  

TempsSontFous: I've been typing since I was 9 years old (I'm 70 now). Learned touch-typing from my mother on an old Remington. Fell in love with the IBM Selectric in typing class in high school. Actually typed so fast on it once that it jammed and the metal strip that moves the print head snapped and sproinged out the top of the typewriter. My teacher was actually impressed by that.

And the original reason for the QWERTY layout was to keep the type bars from jamming together. Mostly. Still happened, though.


Yes and no. They could have used any layout, they just needed to move the type bars around. Those weren't standardized yet either.
 
MLWS
2023-02-08 5:51:25 PM  
It certainly does in my car:
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