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    1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 22 Apr 2020

      If the caps lock key didn't already exist and someone proposed it, it would seem like an insane idea.

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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 22 Apr 2020
      Replying to @sarah_cone

      It has been used for shouting for a long time. At least since the 1930s, and probably longer.

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        1. Josh Dance‏ @JoshDance 22 Apr 2020
          Replying to @paulg @sarah_cone

          Would love to see 'A History of the Caps Lock'

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        1. Alan Laidlaw‏ @alanlaidlaw 22 Apr 2020
          Replying to @paulg @sarah_cone

          Also, people have been making LOL-like abbr since around 1870. Instead of a caps lock key, I would much prefer an acronym auto compiler/decompiler.

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        1. Joël Franusic‏ @jf 22 Apr 2020
          Replying to @paulg @sarah_cone

          It was really odd for me to find an all caps email that my dad wrote to an internal Atari mailing list that is now online. When I asked him why it was all caps, he said his terminal didn't support lowercase. I believe him, but it also sounds like a very convenient excuse.

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        1. Trevor Blackwell‏ @tlbtlbtlb 22 Apr 2020
          Replying to @paulg @sarah_cone

          To really make your point, you need all-caps and manual underlining (added by backspacing and typing _s) source: https://lettersofnote.com/2010/08/05/the-tiger-oil-memos/ …pic.twitter.com/A9h7lBAwv2

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        2. Maria Daniels 🏺 📸 🏺‏ @maria_d 22 Apr 2020
          Replying to @tlbtlbtlb @paulg @sarah_cone

          “I am paying you to work — not slouch”

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        1. Taco  🌮‏ @tacopotze 22 Apr 2020
          Replying to @paulg @sarah_cone

          SERIOUSLY?

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        1. eric‏ @ericpeng_ 22 Apr 2020
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          Technology expresses psychology.

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        1. Rosanna Lapham MD‏ @rlapham2 22 Apr 2020
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          Still today used across the US for pathology reports for the diagnosis. Time for change.

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        1. Jeff Conrad‏ @jconradmn 22 Apr 2020
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          MARK TRAIL! style of lettering speech bubbles.

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        1. mobius-eng‏ @mobius_eng 22 Apr 2020
          Replying to @paulg @sarah_cone

          Fortran programmers must have been really mad at their computers in 60s & 70s 😁

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        2. Lelsey Mostert‏ @LesleyBioproEng 23 Apr 2020
          Replying to @mobius_eng @paulg @sarah_cone

          Actually, no Fortran programmer owned a computer in the 60s and 70s. And, yes they were mad at the computer they were working on because so many other people were working on it at the same time that they had to wait ages for anything to happen

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