171: "Gratuitous Stroke"

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4.8 • 521 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2023

⏱️ 102 minutes

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This week we're thrilled to be joined by Marcin Wichary, author of the upcoming and extensively detailed history of the keyboard, Shift Happens. We get into all kinds of typing-related subjects like QWERTY dominance, the shift wars of the late 1800s, and 150-year-old designs that have trickled down to software keyboards, plus a fascinating discussion about what it's like to spend seven years traveling the world to write a book of this scope and depth. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	Okay, we just had a moment of silence with that burning man cold open that you burned.
0:05.0	Hey, Brad, you know what the first Google Doodle was?
0:07.3	I do, because I just went and looked it up.
0:09.8	Yeah, you were talking about Google Doodles right before this.
0:12.6	And I said, I wonder if they archived those.
0:15.1	And sure enough, they did.
0:16.1	They did.
0:16.8	It said, Google.com slash doodles.
0:19.8	You cannot filter by year as far as I can tell.
0:23.6	You can't search, but you can't just like, I don't see a way to anyway.
0:27.3	The point is it's just one of those endlessly infinite pages.
0:29.7	Is there a term?
0:30.8	Yeah, it's an infinite scrolling page is what it's called.
0:32.9	Scrolling page.
0:33.5	Okay.
0:34.4	You just have to do that for.
0:35.8	It's not infinite though, is it? No, but I held the end key for, let's say, three to four straight minutes.
0:42.5	Wow.
0:43.4	Because they've done a lot of doodles over the years and finally made it all the way back to August 30th, 1998.
0:49.7	Wow, really?
0:50.6	It was that long ago?
0:51.5	That was the first Google doodle. Should we mention the Google
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