domain | shifthappens.site |
summary | Its a book about typists competing during the Shift Wars of the 1880s; Nobel-prize winner Arthur Schawlow using a laser to build the best typo eraser; August Dvorak and many others  trying to dethrone QWERTY; Margaret Longley and Lenore Fenton perfecting touch typing; Soviet agents listening to American keystrokes; women pouring into offices, eager to do more than typing and re-typing; people aspiring to make the best mechanical keyboard today by blending the past and the future.22: The last interview about a conversation with Peter Tytell 20: Dear Cynthia about chasing an author of a great photograph 26: Moir no more about fixing old photos 34: The monkey lives about this very website and monkeys and Shakespeare 7: Shift Shift : appreciating Rick Dickinson, the designer of famous U.K. keyboards 11: To walk among keyboard magicians about building a keyboard unlike any other 10: A time machine behind the cypress trees about finding a strange time capsule north of San Francisco 38: The cursed universes of Dana Sibera about the amazing computers and keyboards that will never exist |
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 | 2025-01-10 |
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