The Abridged History Of Having Fun \/\/ith Keyboards
summary
A tour of concrete curios: a 1873 typewriter with its mechanical Enter, the 1874 Mark Twain family letter, a solved mystery about the red X and power-repeat keys, hands-on overtyping tricks that make portraits, early chatbots like Eliza, Plato and Commodore 64 one-line maze demos, the surprising nine autocorrect entries from 1993, examples of PETSCII/ANSI art, a 14-keyboard emoji contraption and months-long typewriter portraits — each item shows what was built, how it was done, and what actually worked.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:50The first typewriter
- 2:48Revolution
- 12:45Remington
- 18:44Emoji
- 22:33Commodore 64
- 23:55Semigraphic
- 25:11Infinite Maze
- 26:15Dancing Guy
- 27:20Games
- 29:14Typewriter
- 32:24Japanese software
- 35:59History
- 38:34Fonts
- 40:05Cultural implication
- 40:34Recreating ourselves
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