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A Condensed History Of The Keyboard

Posted by timothy on from the they-drove-mercedes-benzes dept.

An anonymous reader points to this overview of old (good) keyboards versus the cheap and nasty kind which begins "Today's keyboards aren't what they used to be, no sir! Back in my day, we had our BS technology; our keyboards had chassis's which allowed 'em to be thrown off a 3-story building and still work - barely dented. Yes those were the days." Not a lot of new information, but some good visuals.

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  1. Dvorak keyboards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yawn. A lengthy discussion of Dvorak vs Querty is about to being. beware.

  2. slashdotted... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    [insert random funny, haha joke about something like runnin the web server on a really old keyboard or something equally as stupid]

    dammit, i'm still asleep... :-(

  3. Apostrophes do not make plurals. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think the author is a 'tard. While I don't know for sure what the plural of "chassis" is, I know it isn't formed by using an apostrophe.

    How is this phenomenon possible? Are there schools so poor that they teach it? Are teachers so lazy that they don't correct it? Are students so dumb that they just don't learn?