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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 4 Jan 2018
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      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 …

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    2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 4 Jan 2018
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      5. History of the predictive text swearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hcoT6yxFoU …

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    3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 4 Jan 2018
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      (A skit apparently much more grounded in reality than you might assume: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chubi&defid=1907493 …)

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    4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 4 Jan 2018
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      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

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    5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 4 Jan 2018
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      (Otherwise known as “S  cunt  orphe problem”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem …)

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    6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 4 Jan 2018
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      Isn’t this all getting too cute and meta.pic.twitter.com/D0E2ci42er

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    7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 4 Jan 2018
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      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

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    8. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 4 Jan 2018
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      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

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    9. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 5 Jan 2018
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      9. Even more funny since I was the designer on this very feature at Google.pic.twitter.com/yiR02kIodj

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    10. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 5 Jan 2018
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      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

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      Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 5 Jan 2018
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      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.)

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        2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 5 Jan 2018
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          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 …

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        3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 5 Jan 2018
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          (This thread became such an emotional rollercoaster.)

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        4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 5 Jan 2018
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          Marcin Wichary Retweeted karanbir singh

          13. Best dramatization of “Cupertino effect” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupertino_effect …) I’ve seen:https://twitter.com/karanbirtinna/status/921053635554902017 …

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          karanbir singh @karanbirtinna
          In an alternate universe, a duck is trying to type his name but autocorrect keeps changing it to fuck.
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        5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 5 Jan 2018
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          Marcin Wichary Retweeted  ♥ mark magark ♥

          14. And then there’s this:https://twitter.com/markedly/status/943188943977238528 …

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           ♥ mark magark ♥ @markedly
          Me: *accidentally types url wrong one time* Navigation Bar: [every day for 15 years] Do you wanna go to Faceboot today? Huh? You wanna visit a boot with a face on it? Huh, you piece of shit? Is that what you wanna do? Moron.
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        6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 6 Jan 2018
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          15. “We used predictive keyboards trained on all seven books to ghostwrite this spellbinding new Harry Potter chapter.” https://twitter.com/botnikstudios/status/940627812259696643 …

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        7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 6 Jan 2018
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          Marcin Wichary Retweeted Botnik Studios

          (Not too into Harry Potter? How about Arrested Development?)https://twitter.com/botnikstudios/status/943542693401120772 …

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          Botnik Studios @botnikstudios
          We present Season 5 Ep 1 of Arrested Development, by human writers on predictive text keyboards. Ready for table read, Ron Howard. Writers: @jonahformayor, @PissMistress, @zachbdunn, @drspam, @spies_please, @tgeller, @johnabender, @therealaskj, @dmillstein http://j.mp/2DfFLar  pic.twitter.com/9m8lNnjC1i
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        8. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 6 Jan 2018
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          16. A nice interview with the creator of Botnik:https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/jamie-brew-predictive-text-clickhole-coding-comedy/ …

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        9. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 7 Jan 2018
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          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?

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        10. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 8 Jan 2018
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          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

          A screenshot of default AutoCorrect dialog box in Microsoft Word 6.0
          A screenshot of default AutoCorrect dialog box in Microsoft Word 6.0
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        11. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 8 Jan 2018
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          (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

          AutoCorrect dialog box in Windows 95
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        12. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 8 Jan 2018
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          (And, did you know that modern Word has extra autocomplete FOR NERDS? I didn’t!)pic.twitter.com/BD6pWIoeqZ

          Math AutoCorrect dialog box screenshot from Word 2016
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        13. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 8 Jan 2018
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          (Funnily enough, I just watched my brain autocompleting “autocorrect” to “autocomplete.”)

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        14. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 8 Jan 2018
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          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

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        15. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 9 Jan 2018
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          Marcin Wichary Retweeted Nathanael Coyne (Nat)

          20. Heh, but also sigh.https://twitter.com/nathanaelb/status/891089433667096576 …

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          Nathanael Coyne (Nat) @NathanaelB
          WAIT TILL I'VE FINISHED TYPING BEFORE YELLING AT ME pic.twitter.com/dKSHJdwOBi
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        16. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 1 Mar 2018
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          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 …

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        17. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 27 Mar 2018
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          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

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        18. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 30 Apr 2018
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          Marcin Wichary Retweeted Joseph Sutton

          23. We might never learn this lesson / This might never cease to be hilarious:https://twitter.com/badmanbegins/status/956630644838359041 …

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          Joseph Sutton @BadmanBegins
          It would seem a decision was made to make the Narcos subtitles more UK-friendly by replacing all usage of 'ass' with 'arse'. Anyway, this just happened. pic.twitter.com/IKqIATxgBN
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        19. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 28 Jul 2018
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          Marcin Wichary Retweeted nicole nguyen

          24. :facepalm:https://twitter.com/itsnicolenguyen/status/1022995740287614977 …

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          nicole nguyenVerified account @nicnguyen
          after typing "sit on," gboard suggests "my face" on android (mostly google pixel). after reaching out to google for comment, a spox said the phrase is being removed from word suggestions https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/sit-on-my-face-android-autocomplete …
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        20. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 24 Oct 2018
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          25. https://twitter.com/crushspread/status/1054704019380162560?s=21 …

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        21. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 23 Nov 2018
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          26. “Clearly this wasn’t implemented properly and we have disabled this feature for now.”https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-auto-reply-suggestions-live-videos …

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        22. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 23 Nov 2018
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          27. Deep inside my public library, I found this oldie, but goldie from 1994.pic.twitter.com/s2P0sOYscR

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        23. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 3 Dec 2018
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          Marcin Wichary Retweeted Pegerella #FBR  🌊 ✊🏻 ✊🏽 ✊🏿 ✊🏼

          28.https://twitter.com/pegerella/status/1069382158211575809?s=21 …

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          Pegerella #FBR  🌊 ✊🏻 ✊🏽 ✊🏿 ✊🏼 @Pegerella
          The man who invented autocorrect should burn in hello.
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        24. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 12 Dec 2018
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          Marcin Wichary Retweeted Cabel

          29. Sort of the inverse of some of the above, but this entire thread is too good to pass up.https://twitter.com/cabel/status/1072976837783904256?s=21 …

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          CabelVerified account @cabel
          "I was banned for no reason!!!!!!!" pic.twitter.com/JhnLrJikMp
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        25. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Dec 2018
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          30. “Facebook started testing an auto comment feature and promptly disabled it after users called the tool’s suggested comments on news coverage of a shooting «dystopian.»”https://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/facebook-tests-one-click-comments/ …

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        26. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Dec 2018
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          (I’m beginning to see this thread as obligatory reading for anyone who ever tries to do smart things with people’s typed text.)

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        27. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 15 Dec 2018
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          Marcin Wichary Retweeted innes mck

          31.https://twitter.com/innesmck/status/1060294661171015681 …

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          innes mck @innesmck
          my dad just told me he makes decisions now by emailing himself a potential plan and reading gmail's suggested auto-responses to it to determine if it's good idea or not
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        28. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 5 Dec 2019
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          32. https://twitter.com/nicolathorp_/status/1202366227684962304?s=21 …https://twitter.com/nicolathorp_/status/1202366227684962304 …

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          Nicola ThorpVerified account @nicolathorp_
          I changed my mum’s autocorrect whilst we’re on holiday in Germany. She just texted this to the cat-sitter: pic.twitter.com/drrg5G9swS
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        29. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 27 Dec 2019
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          33. Spotted while walking in San Francisco.pic.twitter.com/xeMQm0u87K

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        30. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 1 Jan 2020
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          34. Spotted in San Francisco, too!pic.twitter.com/Pm2iUEwgLf

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        31. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 28 Mar 2020
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          35. A fun video about the Scuntorphe problem from @tomscott:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcZdwX4noCE …

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