Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/02/19/kids-in-philly-are-part-of-a-c.html
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Good, good…
Next: how to set up an inconspicuous network of couriers.
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Unless you’re Liberace, then you can use the whiteout quicker than I can say Ctrl+Z…
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Pah. Jerry Lewis could do that without a typewriter:
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It would be interesting to know what sort of alternatives these kids are coming from.
If your primary point of reference is a software keyboard on a small screen dominated by push notification spam Ivan imagine that a distraction-frer hard keyboard seems like a revelation.
If you are coming from a proper computer I can certainly imagine some preferring it; but there being a distinct matter-of-taste element.
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Perhaps we could employ some sort of bird. Common and everyday, present in all urban and suburban areas, yet large enough to be able to carry a short scroll of paper. Hmmm. . . .
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kids, is there NOTHING that technology has made better that they won’t get nostalgic over?
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In my first year of (an all boys) high school, we had a typing class that used electric typewriters.
While pretty much everyone else from my school around that time may not care about computers, they’re not a big deal because they can all type fairly well.
Interception would be far too easy.
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Any chance you are from Philly?
I came here to post that back in 1975 I started high school at an all boys school in Philadelphia. All incoming freshman had to take a typing class. Absolutely no one I knew had ever used a typewriter before, because even if your parents used on in work 99% of the people did not have one at home.
Fast forward 35 years and my son started the same school (no longer all boys though, thanks RBG). I asked if he had to take typing. He said why would anyone have to take a typing class, everyone knows how to type.
It dawned on me that in the nineties there was a giant boom of computer typing tutors. Hell, everyone from Dvorak to Mario was offering to teach you typing, because computers came out and now every home had a keyboard, and almost no one could type. Now typing is a self learned skill children pick up naturally.
I enjoyed typing class but of course I am still horrible at it even though I sit behind a keyboard all day now. It’s hard to learn a new skill after you brain has mostly formed. Then again it could have been the pot as it was the 70s.
Paper maps, may they burn in hell.
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Yeah. I did typing for a while at high school. It never became ingrained though and now I still do 2 finger typing - but at least i know where the letters are so it is pretty fast, say 20wpm with a tailwind. But whenever I see someone bangin’ away at 60 words a minute I wish I could.
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First they’re using typewriters; next they’re Wodehousing!
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Mandatory 7th grade typing class on 40-50 year old manual typewriters trained me to beat the living crap out of a keyboard. Between this training and slightly odd skin chemistry, my keyboards lose the screen-printed letters in less than a year.
As a result, I’ve since learned that shockingly few people working in IT jobs know how to type.
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Let’s be fair; that message delivery system was a delicious, plump-breasted speckley sort. What is needed here are some extremely ugly, unpalatable birds. Carrier condors?
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Not really that inconspicuous outside rural parts of the Andes…
And let’s face it, owls would pose a similar problem.
Tits would be tough enough, I suppose.
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