I am at a Typewriter Jam at the San Francisco Center for the Book and I just signed up for a speed typing contest. Wish me luck! – at SF Center for the Book
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I think I’ll be typing on this Hermes 3000 that I just fixed, sort of. (But I cannot touch type on a typewriter.)pic.twitter.com/IED3OEYWrT
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Replying to @mwichary
How much of the changes in keyboard styles have to do with distancing ourselves from the habits of mechanical typewriter users?
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Because I feel like the early keyboards were very typewriter-like with lots of travel and an expectation of heavy fingers. Now, very light.
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Yeah. Very early computer keyboards had extra speakers or solenoids to make sound because we expected typewriters to be loud.
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And slowly it went away to the point now even some clicky switches themselves are considered loud. It feels the same with touch.
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