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b_b · 4463 days ago · link · · parent · post: Why the First Laptop Had Such a Hard Time Catching On (Hint: Sexism) - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic
Keyboarding. Ha. I mentor a lot of young students at work (by young I mean high school-undergrad age). I'm not that much older than them, but the idea of keyboarding to them might as well be carving on stone tablets. I'm not a terrible typist, but these kids, who have been IMing since they could talk, have the typing skills of an advanced secretary. But alas, they'll never know the joys of counting the number of characters in a line of text so that you can backspace half that amount from the center of the page to get centered type. What a skill that turned out to be; thanks public schools!