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@bw@social.lolI’ve been using the Chubon keyboard layout for a decade now. I wrote up a how-it-started, how-it’s-going piece about it.
https://blakewatson.com/journal/my-journey-with-the-chubon-keyboard-layout/
@bw TIL! Especially with OS 9 and before I remember mostly using that OSK for word processing stuff for characters (my mom used to do desktop publishing from home during the late 80s/early 90s on an Apple/Mac).
@anniegreens Yeah I think the Keyboard Viewer was mainly designed for finding and using special characters and symbols. Then at some point, they started calling it an accessibility tool in their marketing.
But I’m glad they finally built a real OSK. And not only that, they leap-frogged every other operating systems’ OSK.
@bw I think I might have been in the last class that went through my junior high that took an actual learn-to-type-on-a-typewriter class. When I think about that, it makes me feel like I must be really old, but I don't think I am, I just think that was an antiquated school system at the time.
@anniegreens I had one of those too! I’m in Mississippi so it was definitely an antiquated school.
@bw haha well I was in Washington, my dad was a teacher in the same school district, he was the first teacher to have a computer in his classroom that he wrote little programs for keeping student records and they could use it to look up their grades
@bw of course, none of that would be sanctioned now