This is an example of just one to-do branch I had to traverse today. There are so many more – and I’d lie if I said I fully understand the shape of the entire giant tree.pic.twitter.com/hVOcgSheKv
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Unexpectedly giddy about completely randomly stumbling online upon three pages typewritten in 1880s on the first (popular) typewriter, the famed Sholes & Glidden. It has been incredibly rare to see anything coming from that typewriter, particularly in actual casual use.pic.twitter.com/RdkooYhKU6
It’s a good night for research. Jumped through many journals (Boston Medical and Surgical Journal » The Lancet » The Birmingham Medical Review) to finally find the detailed description of the first recorded case of RSI, then named “type-writer’s cramp,” from 1898. Thrilling.pic.twitter.com/iC7Cs68C44
At the public library: “So you’re the guy who orders all those typewriter books.”
Amazed (and a bit frightened) that I’m still learning of new keyboards and so on pretty much every week.pic.twitter.com/7C3V49HmeL
Genuinely so thrilling to find some really amazing books on the subject, long after I thought I’ve seen them all.pic.twitter.com/1b5HEdRlcP
(I mean, two hundred plus pages on Japanese keyboards, some of the most fascinating keyboards ever!
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This book is SO GOOD. It’s like traveling to Japan again, except now with a time machine.
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PS in my latest newsletter, another amazing keyboard-related trip that I was lucky to have accidentally instigated:https://www.getrevue.co/profile/shift-happens/issues/a-time-machine-behind-the-cypress-trees-133223 …
(In the middle of reading a book about Japanese word processors and their keyboards, a Japanese word processor and its keyboard materialized themselves on my desk.)pic.twitter.com/XYS3AvwOby
I suspect when you dig deep enough, you will always find something at even the most unusual intersection of a bunch of your interests. Here it is for me: a 1990 ad I just discovered that’s ⅓ keyboards, ⅓ typography, and ⅓ education.pic.twitter.com/NYpo9PgcPT
1483.00 ELECTRONIC DESIGN V. 30, 1-12 Jan. 7-June 10, 1982 (May Career Extra, Index) Reel 1 of 3 University Microfilms International Duplicate Negativepic.twitter.com/rZHMSU4pp1
(If you’re curious what I’m researching, it’s the early days of mechanical keyboards. If this looks interesting, DM me and I’ll send you ~200 of these.)pic.twitter.com/NYNKQG7xWf
I learned today there’s a difference between microfiche and microfilm.pic.twitter.com/povzY0BUeE
Took a 90-year-old thesis that spent last 60 years on a shelf somewhere in Cincinnati for a ferry ride in California – and it rewarded me with gorgeous vulgar fractions that used to be on every keyboard, but disappeared long ago.pic.twitter.com/RohTa4ZM2l
We are now on a vintage Italian trolley for a final ride back to the library. PLOT TWIST: Even the trolley has a keyboard.pic.twitter.com/EopXDLICZ6
Returned the thesis to be sent back to its home and likely never ever again leave its shelf, except PLOT TWIST I also scanned it so you can all read it now: https://archive.org/details/TheRemingtonRandConsolidation …pic.twitter.com/19YwlC3Z1m
Walking past library stacks, on a lark I randomly picked up a volume of Time and then let it open wherever it wanted. Of course it was something related to keyboards.pic.twitter.com/jMStoIeYYi
Uploading scanned papers to @internetarchive while waiting to board my plane like a goddamn *pro.*pic.twitter.com/erdEhnCWo7
…and I immediately spent whatever karma I gained by finding an accessible keyboard with a nice 16-segment display.pic.twitter.com/57md66Nbyx
My interurban bus got pulled over by German police earlier today (routine Schengen Area passport control, it turned out) and I’m immediately like “oooh, what is that keyboard?”pic.twitter.com/wQnGtO5kLH
Some great news on the book front, and momentum – after many months of feeling stuck. (Still a bit overwhelmed with the amount of work needing to be done, but I feel I understand what that will be, at least.)
One interesting thing about collating a lot of information about a single subject over time is that you see fun patterns, e.g.pic.twitter.com/cZh4hEzXDk
Here’s another one (and this is all just tweets that appeared in my timeline or were shared with me without searching):pic.twitter.com/jVmC4CP2wE
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