2. The heartbreaking hilarity of @GooglePoetics: http://www.googlepoetics.com/ pic.twitter.com/8nT6uotqj1
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2. The heartbreaking hilarity of @GooglePoetics: http://www.googlepoetics.com/ pic.twitter.com/8nT6uotqj1
3. “Bill Vaginal wasn’t the only complainant: As Thorpe recalls, Goldman Sachs was mad that Word was always turning it into Goddamn Sachs.” The Fasinatng... Fascinating History of Autocorrect:https://www.wired.com/2014/07/history-of-autocorrect/ …
4. A 2011 interview with @jonwiley on being a Google Autocompleter.
“On a good day, I average 34,000 words per minute. And I go through a new keyboard every eight days.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blB_X38YSxQ …
5. History of the predictive text swearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hcoT6yxFoU …
(A skit apparently much more grounded in reality than you might assume: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chubi&defid=1907493 …)
6. Words censored on various forums because of uncouth words hiding within: assassin cockpit canal screwdriver Saturday hearse basement farther skyscraper grapefruit manuscript William Shatner Bumblebee Riddick cluster Lightwater Town circumvent suspicious reputation Japan
(Otherwise known as “S cunt orphe problem”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem …)
7. Google’s “did you mean” campaign in 2010. (I feel there must be a million jokes funnier than the ones they chose?)pic.twitter.com/qe6NNtcDGF
8. Must be one of the earlier “Google’s algorithms reflect the sexist biases of its creators/society” articles, from 2009:
https://www.salon.com/2009/10/23/google_fail/ …
/cc @sara_ann_marie
9. Even more funny since I was the designer on this very feature at Google.pic.twitter.com/yiR02kIodj
10. A few years ago, Mashable made animations for weird, unexpected Google suggestions. http://mashable.com/2014/07/13/google-autocomplete-funny-illustrations/ …pic.twitter.com/MQkr6Zd3Nf
11. Google Feud! A Family Feud-like game (for one) where you guess Google suggestions: http://www.googlefeud.com/ (It’s really hard, at least for me.)
12. “Google, democracy and the truth about internet search” Just a year ago, a search for “are women” autocompleted to “are women evil?” and immediately showed a result saying “Every woman has some degree of prostitute in her.” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/04/google-democracy-truth-internet-search-facebook …
13. Best dramatization of “Cupertino effect” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupertino_effect …) I’ve seen:https://twitter.com/karanbirtinna/status/921053635554902017 …
15. “We used predictive keyboards trained on all seven books to ghostwrite this spellbinding new Harry Potter chapter.” https://twitter.com/botnikstudios/status/940627812259696643 …
(Not too into Harry Potter? How about Arrested Development?)https://twitter.com/botnikstudios/status/943542693401120772 …
16. A nice interview with the creator of Botnik:https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/jamie-brew-predictive-text-clickhole-coding-comedy/ …
17. Today’s word: cacography, a “deliberate comic misspelling, a type of humour similar to malapropism.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacography E.g. teh awesome, hueg like Xbox, and so on?
18. The very first, 1993 edition of AutoCorrect in Microsoft Word only did nine things: (r) » ® adn » and don;t » don’t i » I incl » include occurence » occurrence recieve » receive seperate » separate teh » thepic.twitter.com/0a0Fr7kdWZ
(By next time in Word 95, the AutoCorrect list was much more vast, including support for the most haggard-looking smileys in human history.)pic.twitter.com/aGJqKRXX8q
(And, did you know that modern Word has extra autocomplete FOR NERDS? I didn’t!)pic.twitter.com/BD6pWIoeqZ
(Funnily enough, I just watched my brain autocompleting “autocorrect” to “autocomplete.”)
19. Speaking of Word 95, this is when the (in)famous red underline appeared for the first time. In marketing Microsoft momentarily branded it as “Spell It,” but on day one the UI already simply said “Click the right mouse button on the red wavy underlined words.”pic.twitter.com/9K1gYJHZTd
21. Google's in news for blacklistting “gun” in Shopping so sloppily it breaks searches for “guns n roses,” “shogun warriors,” “glue guns,” “burgundy wine,” and so on.http://www.businessinsider.com/google-shopping-bans-gun-searches-water-guns-guns-n-roses-2018-2 …
22. Just wanted to share this for posterity… the first, original Word 6.0 AutoCorrect dialog box with the glorious *nine* entries, in 100% high fidelity. (I only saw it in a scan of a book before, so I installed Windows and Word in an emulator to get this.)pic.twitter.com/nEkj2uT2gQ
23. We might never learn this lesson / This might never cease to be hilarious:https://twitter.com/badmanbegins/status/956630644838359041 …
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