domain | shifthappens.site |
summary | The book tells several stories, including: the Shift Wars during the 1880s when typists competed; the invention of the laser by Nobel Prize winner Arthur Schawlow to create an eraser for typos; attempts to replace the QWERTY keyboard layout by August Dvorak and others; Margaret Longley and Lenore Fenton's work on touch typing; Soviet agents listening to American keystrokes; women entering offices seeking more than just typing and re-typing roles; people aspiring to create the best mechanical keyboards of today, combining past and future technologies. Other stories include: Peter Tytell's last interview, chasing a photographer author, fixing old photos, exploring this website's connection with monkeys and Shakespeare, appreciating Rick Dickinson's keyboard design, building an extraordinary keyboard, discovering a time capsule in San Francisco, and Dana Sibera's cursed universes featuring never-realized computers and keyboards. |
title | Shift Happens |
description | Shift Happens |
keywords | keyboard, book, time, keyboards, like, typing, more, keys, type, shift, using, photos, writing, read, mode, pressing, typewriters |
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nslookup | A 173.236.139.151 |
created | 2024-02-23 |
updated | 2024-10-21 |
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