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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.
Joined October 2009

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    1. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 6 Jan 2017
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      Check out this calculator’s worn out, malformed old-style full keyboard.pic.twitter.com/YNeTvG3Eqs

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    2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 6 Jan 2017
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      Eventually, we moved on to ten-key calculator keypads (which were faster to touch-type on), but they kept evolving, too.pic.twitter.com/OnID1Sdk1M

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    3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 6 Jan 2017
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      Practicing on real machines was expensive, so there were practice “dummy” calculators for you to master keyboarding!pic.twitter.com/uGqqykx7aa

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    4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 6 Jan 2017
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      I love that this mock-up calculator for teaching is called… Add-A-Skill. (In my best Robert Redford’s Sneakers impression: “Cute.”)pic.twitter.com/zaChekX8S8

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    5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 6 Jan 2017
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      One way of teaching how to touch type properly involved rings you’d wear with colour-coded animals on them… and a corresponding typewriter.pic.twitter.com/wTv0Oj0xZ7

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    6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 6 Jan 2017
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      And DAMN STRAIGHT this leads us to typewriters! This museum has purportedly the entire Remington collection (its owner used to work there).pic.twitter.com/bFLPxyDfg0

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    7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 6 Jan 2017
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      It starts with a beautifully restored Sholes and Glidden, or the first QWERTY keyboard. A few differences in layout from modern keyboards!pic.twitter.com/5G9jZDcVx2

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    8. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 6 Jan 2017
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      (Some earlier typewriters looked much more like… pianos.)pic.twitter.com/1N3lOqfrMa

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    9. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 6 Jan 2017
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      This is a reminder that Shift had to be invented also – and, once invented, not everybody jumped on board quickly.pic.twitter.com/RiMo2bmg57

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    10. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 6 Jan 2017
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      Here, Smith Premier doesn’t quite know what to do with the space bar (compare two subsequent models).pic.twitter.com/VO0YxPMLwK

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      On this typewriter, you were supposed to type one letter with left hand, and another with right, AT THE SAME TIME. http://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/duplex.html …pic.twitter.com/7ByZNl1oAG

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        2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 6 Jan 2017
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          Compare these two to see we haven’t always had Enter/Return, either! It only appeared when typewriters went electric.pic.twitter.com/QANj2dFcA2

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          Here’s The Empire from 1892, giving Jony Ive some ideas.pic.twitter.com/43JDAQI89O

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