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Marcin Wichary
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Marcin Wichary

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Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens  · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him

San Francisco, Calif.
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    1. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 3 Dec 2018
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      @enf @shadychars @widespacer New discoveries in the tricolon mystery. I found an old Sholes & Glidden document and got it scanned. I see three uses. 1) “semigraphics,” which we knew of before.pic.twitter.com/8pFFHEYRgG

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    2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 3 Dec 2018
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      @enf @shadychars @widespacer 2) overtyping S and tricolon for a dollar sign!!! (Also, on another page with a different font, overtyping S and I for the same.)pic.twitter.com/y55HVXRcWA

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    3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 3 Dec 2018
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      3) this, which is where I think tricolon is supposed to stand for parentheses?pic.twitter.com/ZHxPzrREQe

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    4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 3 Dec 2018
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      Very curious of your thoughts on any of the above!

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    5. Shady Characters‏ @shadychars 3 Dec 2018
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      Replying to @mwichary @enf @WideSpacer

      Interesting! I'd be inclined to think that all of these uses are secondary, to an extent - the typist could have used at least one or more other characters in each case. The “$” is clever, but perhaps a happy accident...?

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    6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 3 Dec 2018
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      Replying to @shadychars @enf @WideSpacer

      Yeah, I wonder how much of this was planned for. Although here’s a new idea: what if there were no primary uses? What if this was just some sort of a universal weird unclaimed character you could mold to do your bidding?

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      Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 3 Dec 2018
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      Replying to @mwichary @shadychars and

      (I don’t buy it myself, since every key was so expensive...)

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        2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 3 Dec 2018
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          Replying to @mwichary @shadychars and

          BTW I don’t know what other character could be used for a paren – but then again tricolon was eventually replaced by $ or £ without any other changes, so maybe parents were not that useful.

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        3. Shady Characters‏ @shadychars 3 Dec 2018
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          Replying to @mwichary @enf @WideSpacer

          A dash?

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        2. Shady Characters‏ @shadychars 3 Dec 2018
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          Replying to @mwichary @enf @WideSpacer

          No, indeed. It's a tempting idea, but how many other truly generic characters are there? Not many, I'd think.

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        3. Wide Spacer‏ @WideSpacer 4 Dec 2018
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          Replying to @shadychars @mwichary @enf

          But there were multiple combining characters or multi-use characters right from the start. Semicolon, exclamation point. The dash could be an underscore with a half-life feed. And the dash and period were always semigraphics too.

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        2. Wide Spacer‏ @WideSpacer 4 Dec 2018
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          Replying to @mwichary @shadychars @enf

          But precisely because every key was expensive, doubling or triping up (or more) makes the most sense.

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        3. Eric Fischer‏ @enf 4 Dec 2018
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          Replying to @WideSpacer @mwichary @shadychars

          I think if I were going to waste a key on a weird character, I would have wanted it to represent capitalization

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