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Re: URL characters
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lugnet.publish
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Fri, 3 Mar 2000 23:09:34 GMT
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On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 21:03:54 GMT Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> writes:
> Oh, WOW -- that is AWESOME! It would take a bit of getting used to,
> but, man, I'll bet you could type real text SO much faster that way!
> Very nice!
What about just using a Dvorak keyboard? I've never seem one, but it is
designed to lessen finger movements across the keyboard, where as QWERTY
was designed to slow people down so their typewriters wouldn't jam...
--Bram
Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com
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 | | QWERTY keyboards (was: Re: URL characters)
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| (...) I don't think the original purpose of QWERTY was to _slow_ people down. Many mechanical typewriters can operate at hair raising speeds. What causes the typewriter "hammers" to jam is usually two subsequent letters from the same area of (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: URL characters
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| (...) Oh, not at all -- that's exactly what I meant. U.S. cluelessness about non-U.S. conventions is even worse than U.S. chauvinism. At least chauvinists know that other conventions exist. :-) (...) Yes, but the reason ISO-8859-1 (for example) has (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
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