The doctor my mom took me to when I was little would hunt and peck out a
prescription with a cigarette dangling from his lips. I was amazed how well
he could type.
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Moffett
Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 7:38 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: One space versus two spaces (again)
They taught me in high school to double tap the spacebar after a
sentence. That was 1996. No mention of one space that I recall.
Almost nobody was using type writers at that point.
At least they taught me to type and I'm glad for it. I have a colleague
who hunts and pecks with two fingers on each hand. This guy has a
masters degree from Harvard, so whenever I see him type I marvel at the
thought that he must have jammed out a 20 page thesis by hunting and
pecking.
For me it's quite literally a tell for how old someone is: before or after
typewriters. When we were taught typing in middle school it was using
computers and it was single space. I was *told* that on typewriters it was
two spaces.
