(There were even a few index typewriters you could keep in your pocket, the earliest predecessor to a smartphone! Note: “Not a toy.”)pic.twitter.com/Ejg0BKBEdv
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Index keyboards are a great example of an alternative idea that’s easy to ridicule, but the moment you step outside the mainstream, its deficiencies can become its powers.
Japanese and Chinese typewriters? Needing to access thousands of characters before software meant traditional keyboard was impossible… but an index typewriter could work.pic.twitter.com/kAMfApJpOq
Stephen Hawking used a version of an index keyboard to talk. The very same simplicity and inefficiency that would bother many typists was actually a great benefit here, a cheek twitch being his sole input method.pic.twitter.com/oqrpheBlwq
You might also remember a lo-tech version of this idea from Breaking Bad. (“A page a day” is better than nothing.)pic.twitter.com/hqqfkH52Dq
Have a limited room on your 1980s wrist? Put a tiny index typewriter in your phone.pic.twitter.com/HyO8p6uOn9
Need to communicate with ghosts? How about an Ouija index typewriter. Waitpic.twitter.com/hawROsvq4x
Well, next time, be on the lookout for an index keyboard in your life! Maybe, if you’re lucky, it’ll even be as cute as this cutest ever package-labeling machine.pic.twitter.com/NDCgwXlxEb
That’s it! I-click-space-H-click-O-click-P-click-E-click-space-T-click-H-click-I-click-S-click-space-H-click-E-click-L-click-O *fuck*
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