Yikes. The dreaded moment finally happened. My keyboard research led me to Fox News. :·/ This is a piece on the “keyboard for blondes”, from about a decade ago. You don’t have to watch it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYury2tB4G4 …
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Weirdly enough, it even made it to Russia. (The historian in me would very much love a Russian copy of that keyboard. It seems like such an eerie entity.)pic.twitter.com/P76NvkT1oe
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The joke’s partly on the creators, of course: A keyboard with keys such as Yes, No, or Eraser would actually be friendlier to everybody. And function keys *are* indeed generally useless.
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Nota bene: In early 2000s, there was another novelty keyboard, with even more suspect gender politics. It was called Guy’s Keyboard. Here’s their preserved website. Enter at your own risk: https://web.archive.org/web/20020119162325/http://guyskeyboard.com …
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I loved their claim that “after 127 years of inertia, the Guy’s Keyboard may be the first successful competitor to the sometimes hated Qwerty keyboard.” (Narrator: It wasn’t.)
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If for some reason you’re interested in (mostly awful) keyboard humour, subscribe to my newsletter! In a few days I’ll be sending out an epic summary of 100+ years of (mostly awful) keyboard jokes.https://www.getrevue.co/profile/shift-happens/ …
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