I was just reading this thread… https://sh.itjust.works/post/23476261
…and it got me thinking about something that I’ve wanted for a long time. Why is it that keyboards have not evolved to have dedicated copy/paste keys left of the main board? I’d love to see an additional column of keys left of Esc->Ctrl configurable as macros at least. I do a lot of copy/paste for work. The current shortcuts arent terrible or anything but they’re not exactly comfortable. I’d rather move my whole hand to the left for a macro key than contort to hit the current shortcut.
What do you think?
Some people never learned touch typing.
Never heard it called touch typing before… Always just “typing”
Before millennials, touch typing was a specialized skill on your resume, since “typing” would include hunt and peck, which itself is still fairly common among earlier generations.
I’m a millennial and I learned touch typing on a typewriter in school, specifically for my resume.
Wow, that did not feel great to say.
Are you an older millennial? I’m a younger millennial and I’ve never even so much as seen a typewriter in person let alone typed on one. We were taught to type in school though on computers.
First, fuck you, hahahha, second, yes. Born in 1981, which AFAIK is the literal dividing year between Gen-X/Millennial.
Ah yeah ok haha. The generation divides are only so accurate as to life experiences!!
I’m a bit younger but remember typewriters being around. Did your school have the old non-electric kind or the kind with a plastic box? The electric ones were nice because the keys were easier to press and they could buffer the input to avoid jams. The really nice ones let you type a full line on a digital display before printing.
99% sure it was a plastic box, but this would be like 400 years ago, so I can’t recall exactly, haha. I definitely don’t remember ours having the digital display. We actually went straight to computers the next year, which obviously was much nicer.
Yeah computers had already taken over in my earliest memories but I’d find salvage biking around local neighborhoods. Mostly easy fixes, and people threw out working stuff a lot.
Usually didn’t keep stuff long, just hawked it to neighbor kids, but I got to fool around with several old word processors and typewriters, and some early computers with big floppy drives, green phosphor displays, etc. (One had some kind of orange envelope shaped folding digital screen that I’ve never seen again in all these years.)
Honestly wouldn’t mind having a typewriter available today just to fill out paper forms.