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Offline Lu_e

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'After all, the world learned to type using Remington's keyboard...'
« on: Mon, 06 May 2013, 11:25:35 »
Just happened to see this article that talks about og patents etc.. for layouts of typewriters. Kinda fun, but not that great. Comments kinda get into more... lol

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2013/05/fact-of-fiction-the-legend-of-the-qwerty-keyboard
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Re: 'After all, the world learned to type using Remington's keyboard...'
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 06 May 2013, 12:31:45 »
Read that yesterday. Fascinating read. It's almost too much to try and figure out what really happened.
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Re: 'After all, the world learned to type using Remington's keyboard...'
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 06 May 2013, 13:03:38 »
Haha, I saw this article just 20 minutes ago and was going to post it.  Fascinating read.
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Offline davkol

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Re: 'After all, the world learned to type using Remington's keyboard...'
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 06 May 2013, 13:04:59 »
That's one of the stupidest articles I've read recently. Any logical reasoning is simply absent there.

Dammit, I'm talking about a completely different article.
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