Marcin Wichary’s Twitter threads2019-09-29T05:34:32.722Zhttps://github.com/mwichary/twitter-thread-listAn automatically-generated list of Twitter threads from @mwichary<![CDATA[Starting the book-writing thread №2, since the first one is long and really slow.
The first thread, July 2016–January 2018: https://t.co/TysnPP0J3z]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9566175808143482892019-09-28T05:56:49.000Z<![CDATA[The beautiful world of impression counters, attached to a printing presses to automatically count the number of pages printed.
[1/6]
(in @PrintMuseumCA) https://t.co/3QHm0e8gPC]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/11770976966974136322019-09-26T05:50:34.000Z<![CDATA[A coffee shop next to my workplace has a collection of weird records with weird covers, and I thought I’d occasionally share a few in this thread to spread the weirdness further. https://t.co/xp6vArGFSM]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/11031638162447974402019-09-24T15:12:45.000Z<![CDATA[So, I learned that early Macs had an onboard reset that was inaccessible unless you bought a special plastic insert – Programmer’s Key – then you could press it “from the outside.”
Were there any other computers with that idea? User-added break/reset?
https://t.co/nGi1W5heVF https://t.co/eWXAOFst8r]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/11741921444684021772019-09-18T06:19:03.000Z<![CDATA[Hello, stranger.
I’m glad you decided to join me on this impromptu tour of a somewhat forgotten era of computing: the time when Screens Were Expensive – and so computers had no choice but to use smaller screens, small screens, and even ridiculously tiny screens.
Shall we…?]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/11738292240266281012019-09-17T06:05:13.000Z<![CDATA[I am seriously fascinated by the weird anthropomorphized illustrations of mainframe computers from the 1960s and 1970s. I find them all the time now in my research. https://t.co/CqBTbw9HUy]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/11314372205255147522019-09-17T03:44:32.000Z<![CDATA[Today at @PrintMuseumCA I had a chance to watch the most beautiful printing press I have ever seen running – a Heidelberg from 1960s. https://t.co/jPmi67Aiba]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/11729854660411596802019-09-14T21:59:54.000Z<![CDATA[On my vacation in a rural California museum that has dozens of typewriters, calculators, Linotype machines, and teletypes.
(And two cats.)
I’ll ask them if they allow me into behind-the-glass areas to take better photos with my camera. Wish me luck! https://t.co/yeUr43cu2N]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/11714758744759582752019-09-12T04:58:13.000Z<![CDATA[Book idea:
Oral histories of common UI design elements and conventions: Gmail’s Butter Bars and Toasts, rotating pizza mouse pointer, pull-to-refresh, Cut/Copy/Paste, double clicking, Ctrl-Tab, slide to unlock. Context surrounding them at the time + today’s perspective.]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9512641923670097922019-09-12T00:42:07.000Z<![CDATA[Starting an ongoing thread with the most well-designed/beautiful keyboards.
Please agree, disagree, or jump in with your suggestions! \ö/]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8551701468175523842019-09-03T04:36:48.000Z<![CDATA[I want to watch more documentaries, particularly about social issues and the relationship between technology and people.
Please send me recommendations if you have any!
Here are a few recent ones from me:]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10788955013641912342019-08-08T05:44:31.000Z<![CDATA[I wanted to walk you through the fascinating world of Soviet and East European clones of ZX Spectrum. This is the original, from 1982. https://t.co/4cYK6yW1GM]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8623940333599293452019-07-28T20:45:22.000Z<![CDATA[One of the fascinating things about the 1976 Apple I computer was that it was only sold as a board – you had to bring your own keyboard, screen, and power supply.
That meant every single Apple I was different. Here’s a gallery celebrating some of the most interesting ones. https://t.co/db8uAOC6Me]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/11552703091439534092019-07-28T00:27:48.000Z<![CDATA[A photographic appreciation of some typewriter details at today’s Typewriter Jam at @SFCB.
1. Touch Control lever, Royal Portable, 1930s? https://t.co/Wpw8SX1DBa]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/11347164794530119692019-06-01T07:07:18.000Z<![CDATA[I learned about the most delightful little device today at @SFCB.
You know these typical old-school restaurant bills in America? https://t.co/vgrSfcwhvh]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/11241994940174376962019-05-03T16:52:51.000Z<![CDATA[Favourite new existential keyboard key. https://t.co/jqrEcoThTG]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8904331980726353922019-04-16T21:45:57.000Z<![CDATA[An artist @tanaka_tatsuya has been posting a new art with miniature people every single day since April 2011.
Many of them include keyboards, but there is so much more variety and delight in his worlds.
https://t.co/In6JJWz5pU https://t.co/cz0GYKqRsu]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10943627017681838102019-04-06T18:20:18.000Z<![CDATA[Earlier this month, @hannahjdotca alerted me to the existence of this weird novelty calendar with a cat in front of an old HP computer. I couldn’t help but grabbing it and scanning it all. https://t.co/RhDh6MZnDz]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/11074854220058173442019-03-22T20:00:12.000Z<![CDATA[I feel oddly proud of contributing my first scanned manual to Internet Archive.
https://t.co/eSu0VVZez1]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9226050984416993302019-03-21T05:45:43.000Z<![CDATA[I worked with Tess at Medium. I interviewed her, as a matter of fact, but – just like a bunch of other people commented – at the end she ended up interviewing me.]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/11044884537968476162019-03-09T21:09:13.000Z<![CDATA[In my keyboard research, one of the most amazing and constant features is how *early* some of the ideas appeared.
Often, the things that seem to only make sense in the computer universe, existed much earlier, in the physical world.]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10988477142284288002019-02-22T21:55:56.000Z<![CDATA[Does anyone know what computer this is? I am stumped.
(This is from a 1984 BBC programme, if that helps narrow it down.) https://t.co/lB9WMDRWJK]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10968468931102924812019-02-17T22:57:37.000Z<![CDATA[I believe Clear/⌧ key on the big Apple keyboard is a leftover from the times of professional uses of keypads. It’s a “deterministic correction key” – upon making a mistake while typing a number, it feels safer and quicker to just start the number from scratch… https://t.co/MjSmYg1ADj]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10953685807181824002019-02-12T17:27:11.000Z<![CDATA[Marcin K. Wichary, Esq.
Keyboard Identification Service
https://t.co/FprN5DLGQR]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10718751935665192962019-02-03T05:39:22.000Z<![CDATA[Two great examples of extracting unusual extra info from an old recorded signal. Does anyone know of more?]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10854068322088673282019-01-16T15:06:06.000Z<![CDATA[Research. It never ends. But there are moments I wish it did.
https://t.co/ikVJhvKlLp https://t.co/AMS5m15Mqq]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9171864005581127682019-01-13T22:01:55.000Z<![CDATA[@enf @shadychars @widespacer New discoveries in the tricolon mystery.
I found an old Sholes & Glidden document and got it scanned. I see three uses.
1) “semigraphics,” which we knew of before. https://t.co/8pFFHEYRgG]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10698461730059714562019-01-12T05:23:15.000Z<![CDATA[There is this mini genre of documentaries: “3–8 minute shorts about old men repairing typewriters.”
It’s so interesting to watch a few in the row, and see the similarities and the (big/small) differences in the subjects and in the ways the filmmakers approach their task.]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10820759972461240322019-01-07T00:51:53.000Z<![CDATA[A few tiny things I learned about London Underground today that delighted me, a small thread:]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10803064129100718082019-01-06T07:29:48.000Z<![CDATA[Okay, this must be the most bad-ass typist ever. Her name is Lenore Fention. The deadpan ending of this made me laugh out loud.
(This is from a 1943 U.S. Navy training video.) https://t.co/FH5yZROa4g]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9425128482315264062019-01-01T06:49:55.000Z<![CDATA[I wonder sometimes what would be the oldest extant word based on technology no longer in use. Taping an interview? Dialing someone? https://t.co/rtwiYJ9f6t]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10796084990830592002018-12-31T22:03:30.000Z<![CDATA[Are there more examples of this meme?
I have two.
1. https://t.co/SDOhbvKpzk]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10763017369129287682018-12-28T16:35:42.000Z<![CDATA[A grab bag of fun links about auto-suggest/auto-complete/spell check/predictive text. Send me more!
1. “President Abraham Lincoln was buttbuttinated by an armed buttailant after a life devoted to the reform of the US consbreastution.” https://t.co/B8J2sU3Qms]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9490023434496901122018-12-16T04:59:36.000Z<![CDATA[Tomorrow (Wednesday) the classic “trip down Market Street” movie from 1906 will be projected atop Salesforce Tower, between 6–7 and 9–10pm.
Spread the word!
(This might make me like the tower finally, at least a bit.) https://t.co/FdBNgEvbj1]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10701393398567362562018-12-06T06:15:16.000Z<![CDATA[Ah, to imagine San Francisco like Chicago… https://t.co/Jkbys6mxxk]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10700603326666506242018-12-05T18:34:44.000Z<![CDATA[I’m giving a talk today while jet lagged, emotionally exhausted after a night of watching midterm results, in the middle of a cold, and with two lithium-ion batteries strapped to my ankles.
Please wish me luck. 0_O]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10600978859189534722018-12-05T16:42:25.000Z<![CDATA[When a new font inspires you so much you just keep making covers for imaginary sci-fi paperbacks.
/cc @MathieuLoutre + @robinsloan https://t.co/Ir9uJik6yz]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9114355310152744962018-12-03T17:40:23.000Z<![CDATA[My favourite San Francisco subway station – Forest Hill (née Laguna Honda) – celebrated its 100th birthday earlier this year. https://t.co/P0efkcSFNn]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10694821258694983682018-12-03T07:13:41.000Z<![CDATA[The U-Bahn Museum in Berlin felt like a celebration of tactility: user interface elements all realized exclusively in old-fashioned atoms, made from materials I don’t usually expect to participate in UI-making; a place where even maps, type, and programming came with dimensions. https://t.co/XKs2NWRZW0]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10672669857198080002018-11-27T04:44:12.000Z<![CDATA[I just experienced a moment of wonderful old-school Internet serendipity.
I spent the last few days watching the excellent old tech videos by @techconnectify. They’re so good I instantly became a Patreon patron.
(Check them out! https://t.co/4YvDAzc4nJ) https://t.co/6T107ao2u9]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10664908787834101762018-11-25T00:39:04.000Z<![CDATA[What I really admired about the Videogame Museum in Berlin is that they didn’t stop at cheap nostalgia, or simply trying to recreate an arcade parlor or a mancave. They went much further than that. They managed to put together the biggest celebration of videogames I’ve ever seen. https://t.co/j4brwzRfi7]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10646063845645926402018-11-19T20:12:08.000Z<![CDATA[I found a cache of old photos I took in the mid-1990s of Polish arcade game parlors and repair places. https://t.co/HLn0C3ScVn]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10643256603347312652018-11-19T02:17:32.000Z<![CDATA[Check out this happy cat who just got a chance to spend a day with Erik Spiekermann in his beautiful letterpress space in Berlin. https://t.co/ptgAou1XIU]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10606066791491338252018-11-16T02:12:46.000Z<![CDATA[I’m not an expert on typewriters, but I can try because those kind of keyboards are really interesting.
This is an example of a index typewriter, with a keyboard that’s… well… not a board filled with keys.
https://t.co/lJGLVKcjeM]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10607717127389593602018-11-09T06:28:03.000Z<![CDATA[Absolutely gorgeous stylized photographs of old computers and peripherals by @Docubyte:
https://t.co/JdDHEwJTzq https://t.co/0i14rxopba]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10602859022268989452018-11-08T00:15:38.000Z<![CDATA[I just discovered the existence of these books. Anyone ever looked at them or even heard of them? https://t.co/unZs5sVkHp]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10417122670273740802018-09-25T02:16:39.000Z<![CDATA[Fascinated by UIs that accidentally amass memories. One of them is the wi-fi “preferred networks” pane – unexpected reminders of business trips, vacations, accidental detours, once frequented and now closed cafés. https://t.co/r137dZI0r8]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9960566159282667522018-09-15T02:53:36.000Z<![CDATA[Today, I accidentally stumbled upon the best-named street in the entire city of San Francisco. https://t.co/MJ3Teo5V8A]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10388885509791334402018-09-09T20:47:48.000Z<![CDATA[Yikes. The dreaded moment finally happened. My keyboard research led me to Fox News. :·/
This is a piece on the “keyboard for blondes”, from about a decade ago.
You don’t have to watch it.
https://t.co/A2wfQ2jpHB]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10364136864646635522018-09-03T00:49:05.000Z<![CDATA[This morning at the Botanical Garden, a stranger and I had to collaborate to figure out the timing of two independent sprinklers in order to cross without getting wet. We got stuck in the middle, and escaped with what felt like a second to spare.
That made my day. https://t.co/a3bdCzCJFX]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10317167853288734722018-08-21T01:45:53.000Z<![CDATA[BARTspotting. https://t.co/8FsQ8BqU8l]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/7015702135028531202018-07-28T05:31:29.000Z<![CDATA[So I went on a tiny road trip, stumbled upon a railway museum on the way and yadda yadda I WILL BE DRIVING A LOCOMOTIVE FOR AN HOUR LATER TODAY.
Which is basically a life dream; my grandpa worked at the railways, but he retired too early for me to see any of it.
HOLY SHIT https://t.co/kG2XFiBWla]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10203772440347115532018-07-21T16:06:10.000Z<![CDATA[I don’t know what it is, but I always die laughing at BoJack Horseman banner jokes.
/cc @caramev https://t.co/TkCmWYBtNr]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8439895722036879362018-07-19T02:45:27.000Z<![CDATA[During my research I’ve found many keyboards that felt awful, looked bad, or were conceptually bankrupt.
But it was only yesterday that I found the vilest of keyboards, an idea so cursed that I almost don’t want to talk about it – as if even doing that would give it credibility.]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10181732922874142722018-07-14T16:51:36.000Z<![CDATA[This is among the weirdest/funnest artifacts I have: Inside The Personal Computer, a pop-up book about “the wondrous world of personal computers.”
It’s a “sensational new book teaches you everything you need to know.”
And it’s from 1984.
Shall we…? https://t.co/RDTeQkjbU2]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10156572601968476162018-07-08T18:33:49.000Z<![CDATA[Tell me this thing above the keyboard of a 1985 Zenith Z-171 doesn’t quite remind you of something more modern… https://t.co/eiktJQak50]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10147447247567831042018-07-05T07:35:48.000Z<![CDATA[For as long as I remember, I was fascinated with segmented typography – not quite vectors, not quite pixels.
Inspired by a conversation with @covrter and @enf I made a little typing (and painting!) playground. Maybe you’ll like it.
https://t.co/kyrOcb0rDr https://t.co/4LeulXIch4]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9948492487840235522018-06-03T04:02:39.000Z<![CDATA[This book (“Sweating bullets”) is really good. It’s a fascinating business case study and an unexpected startup tale, and it’s highly detailed and much richer than it has the right to be. https://t.co/j4ubPxS1c5]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10030243909156986902018-06-02T22:01:30.000Z<![CDATA[A few thoughtful tweets about recognizing and communicating success arrived in my timeline, and I thought I’d highlight and connect them all.
1. https://t.co/tSeFetbzVF]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10023272600518492172018-05-31T23:35:17.000Z<![CDATA[I just saw a page of a magazine I haven’t looked at since I was a kid. I immediately remembered those user-defined dog characters at the bottom, and the nostalgia became so strong it literally put tears in my eyes.
(<3 @internetarchive) https://t.co/t7x0jVHWcj]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/10020344348691496962018-05-31T21:43:02.000Z<![CDATA[Writers!
While working on my book, I want to play test a better UI to ask readers for feedback on my drafts.
If you have opinions or wishes, and would like to weigh in or beta-test, please DM me!
Some preview of what I’m building: https://t.co/xEGwmBm4mJ]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9990017216983777282018-05-24T20:08:45.000Z<![CDATA[Writing about today’s mechanical keyboard and typewriter communities next for my book.
Do you have any favourite things people have done? Keyboard hacks, creative projects, revivals, remixes? https://t.co/RQexLAYR7S]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9290367430340198402018-05-07T00:54:52.000Z<![CDATA[Someone just introduced me to facepalm kaomoji:
(－‸ლ)
It is so beautiful.]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9906358005838479362018-04-29T17:15:43.000Z<![CDATA[There is a helicopter in San Francisco grabbing things from the top of a skyscraper and lowering them down? https://t.co/qFf6tc0LCY]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9902273281217536012018-04-29T05:33:21.000Z<![CDATA[@goto80 @raquelmeyers @GlennF @loriemerson @xfoml Of possible interest, a 1978 book I just scanned: https://t.co/4rnEuQfBDE]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9821218918999531522018-04-27T15:25:08.000Z<![CDATA[Current life phase: extremely into black-and-white photos of Jobs and Woz with early Apple keyboards. https://t.co/SDvmYNvRT1]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9853211068180561922018-04-15T06:18:15.000Z<![CDATA[First keyboard I interacted with in Japan was already kind of amazing. Mechanical numeric keypad in an ATM! https://t.co/U0bnG3rWui]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9589690464766361602018-03-09T23:33:17.000Z<![CDATA[Things that surprised/amazed me about Japan, an ongoing thread.
(More likely UI than food, but you know this already.)
It’s my first time here. Please comment away and/or point out my cultural insensitivities!]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9589798958827601932018-02-17T08:05:28.000Z<![CDATA[Read, reading, to be read.
(Research for the book. The right pile is likely to grow, still.) https://t.co/MFnPLZOCrn]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/7503744453283758082018-01-25T20:01:24.000Z<![CDATA[For most of my life, I used to think of anger as a personality flaw. That changed during the last year, when attending protests and listening to others made me wonder if my life has been rather anger-free also, to some extent, because it’s been a life of relative privilege.]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9558771501706608642018-01-24T01:09:21.000Z<![CDATA[This made me so angry. It’s virtue signaling while riding on a horse so high it’s anatomically suspect, mixed with the disease known as I Want To Be Seen A Design Thought Leader On Twitter. Here’s why: https://t.co/46XXh7hNAQ]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9554640779330068482018-01-22T16:28:34.000Z<![CDATA[OMG, it’s here!!!
Promised myself not to open this until I finish the current chapter (tomorrow), but it will be HARD.
!!!!! https://t.co/ttWHpqRAVf]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9254510089053798402017-12-03T20:16:23.000Z<![CDATA[Reporting from today’s moment of keyboard magic and serendipity.
This morning, I started researching for a chapter about typewriter and mechanical keyboard communities.]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9287462493474078732017-11-09T22:14:26.000Z<![CDATA[I am at a Typewriter Jam at the San Francisco Center for the Book and I just signed up for a speed typing contest. Wish me luck!]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9215569135521136652017-10-21T03:49:04.000Z<![CDATA[Photos from Chicago Open House 2017!
First: Chicago Tribune Freedom Center plant, where newspapers are still being printed. https://t.co/BkgvZTCh6e]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9203680271068856322017-10-19T18:51:23.000Z<![CDATA[Typography on old Chicago CTA signs vs. brand-new @sfmta_muni signs. I don’t even know where to begin. I’m embarrassed for my city. https://t.co/FNaS6Q782l]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9192008756373012482017-10-16T01:20:33.000Z<![CDATA[For Christmas 1981, a British weekly magazine Woman’s Realm gave everyone a gift of a recipe to type in a dreamy portrait of Prince Charles… https://t.co/LCFXGT87I6]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9124063676793487362017-09-26T21:01:02.000Z<![CDATA[Huge regrets after updating to iOS 11. Photos and Notes just stopped working, and I have yet to find two UI elements aligned to one another.]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9108942265980928012017-09-23T17:07:22.000Z<![CDATA[After a number of years of never making it, I’ll be going to Open House Chicago weekend this year. Beyond excited.]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9081635282840043522017-09-14T03:09:04.000Z<![CDATA[IBM Displaywriter manuals had some fascinating illustrations. I will now rogue-caption some, The New Yorker-style. https://t.co/8VKkqfnknp]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9076616573792993292017-09-12T18:16:27.000Z<![CDATA[This is Borgholm Castle, a 13th-century fortress on an island in Sweden.
If it looks familiar, it’s because it’s also on your Mac keyboard. https://t.co/60jsR964PP]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/9062583796008345612017-09-08T20:57:40.000Z<![CDATA[Hey, @twitter, is it possible to do something about this? I have experienced it myself, too, with a few quarter-viral tweets. https://t.co/YVa90ALnmX]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8993072941811466242017-08-20T17:19:06.000Z<![CDATA[Very in love with the industrial design of this 1970s/80s Dutch personal computer named Holborn. https://t.co/mzQgnp1U4z]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8135111324008652802017-08-16T18:14:08.000Z<![CDATA[Brilliant and hilarious if you’re at all interested in the art of movie trailers: https://t.co/MfwX9eK4nP
(From the awesome @Auralnauts.)]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8972391212187770882017-08-15T19:56:22.000Z<![CDATA[How NOT to use a logo is always my favourite part of a design/brand style guide. Twitter’s: “Do not add anatomy.”
What fun ones did I miss? https://t.co/2IqsUYCSCJ]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8955160933720227842017-08-10T16:03:38.000Z<![CDATA[Two typographical details of early calculators:
This Sanyo ICC-1123 (1973) uses an extra segment just so the digit “4” looks a bit nicer. https://t.co/MadSScJ3LI]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8859649843242434612017-07-16T03:58:41.000Z<![CDATA[Workshopped a bunch of emoji ligatures for more complex and underrepresented feelings. https://t.co/a2CSjTepes]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8838165459267829762017-07-15T19:47:16.000Z<![CDATA[I have been “somewhat” obsessed with my favourite movie Sneakers, which includes trying to get it on all the possible formats. https://t.co/gH0A5WajaE]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8667790077857382402017-07-13T03:04:30.000Z<![CDATA[A few new reasons I am in love with Computer History Museum (@ComputerHistory):]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8837864724693893122017-07-08T20:42:41.000Z<![CDATA[What’s the most scary presentation slide you ever made?
Here’s a story of two of mine.]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8824616302688174092017-07-05T05:00:46.000Z<![CDATA[Just ordered a dozen of Lem’s books that I already have (in multiple copies, even), just because these covers are so, so good. https://t.co/y3r3RsHfvb]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/7863956342028492812017-07-03T22:26:29.000Z<![CDATA[Hi! I just looked at all of the international keyboards on the iPhone, and this’ll be a thread about them. (It’ll get super nerdy.)]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8779850894889943042017-06-22T20:42:07.000Z<![CDATA[Screenshots from the early BlackBerry manual, the phone still meant to sit in the disgusting area full of cobwebs behind your real computer. https://t.co/tW14ABnN2o]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8772201741469368322017-06-20T18:33:11.000Z<![CDATA[Novelty calculator keyboards is what I’d call Sad Creativity.
“You should’ve stepped away from the whiteboard long time ago, son.” https://t.co/nMLCbWDI4A]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8504550249750691842017-04-07T21:35:18.000Z<![CDATA[Love when a story starts assembling itself in your head. This one will be about mouse pointers, Charles Babbage, and sense of purpose.]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/7899857334234726402017-04-05T21:55:19.000Z<![CDATA[Through the miracle of Internet and kindness of strangers, I spoke on the phone with the guy who created the magical Norton mouse pointer.]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8496982207290245122017-04-05T19:20:23.000Z<![CDATA[Not only did @scottjenson show me his Z88 portable computer from the U.K.…
https://t.co/H17dsxDICs]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8482699762847989762017-04-01T20:53:47.000Z<![CDATA[This video is all 23 international Apple keyboards I could find. It’s fun to see them getting farther and farther away from the U.S. layout. https://t.co/uuKdLKfWnd]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8442892399613542402017-03-27T01:51:53.000Z<![CDATA[This still makes me so happy. In 2012 we did a ZX Spectrum doodle for Google’s homepage. I made sure colours/resolution were 100% accurate. https://t.co/aYZIJR98aO]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8443913775762104332017-03-22T03:59:27.000Z<![CDATA[In my building’s laundry room, the dryer doors were facing the wrong way. It bothered me, since it’s a great example of dumb consistency. https://t.co/W4s7KMFkcL]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8420343099889336352017-03-15T15:31:38.000Z<![CDATA[Some of the largest keyboards I discovered:
This is Northgate OmniKey Ultra, an early power-user PC replacement keyboard. It has 119 keys. https://t.co/UrROAQbfn5]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8417273154909634562017-03-14T20:13:56.000Z<![CDATA[I started keylogging myself a few months ago as part of research. It’s eerie to look at those logs now.
This is me just browsing the web. https://t.co/7b1DZP5HoR]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8385303851809628162017-03-08T05:41:59.000Z<![CDATA[If you ever wondered what the inside of a Caltrain driver’s cab looks like, I have something for you! https://t.co/1vmtyUPu66]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8376897473885388812017-03-03T23:16:58.000Z<![CDATA[A little – okay, large – smile in my life this weekend that I wanted to share with you, especially today.]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8263123236356136972017-01-31T06:29:24.000Z<![CDATA[Quiz time! Who said this?
“The very keyboard is a haphazard imposition, wretchedly unbalanced, and absurdly awkward in vital reaches.”]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8234044711160422412017-01-23T06:22:53.000Z<![CDATA[It’s that time of week when @ruffian and I try to find the most intense watch keyboard ever made.
Help us! https://t.co/gaItUk1cPl]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8178771838970470402017-01-08T03:59:58.000Z<![CDATA[I’ve had amazing luck recently discovering or stumbling upon small museums that ended up not small at all.]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8174697908307968002017-01-06T21:37:03.000Z<![CDATA[So much fun to be in New York at the day of the opening of the Second Avenue Subway. https://t.co/WpB49cbeUh]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8156892703631237122017-01-01T23:17:42.000Z<![CDATA[Fascinating exhibit on Ouija and related talking boards in the indefatigable @SFOMuseum.
“Espirito or Revelator” https://t.co/KzHJNm3PLH]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8141429209242337282016-12-28T16:40:18.000Z<![CDATA[Well-Dressed Men Using Light Pens While Sitting Way Too Close To Their Computer Screens https://t.co/WmzgsCjQ7E]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8137952789856665602016-12-27T17:46:58.000Z<![CDATA[The most interesting bits I found in Hewlett Packard’s Keyboard magazine, run between 1969 and 1981… https://t.co/FY91HAshIH]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8132114786814935052016-12-26T02:54:38.000Z<![CDATA[Websites that hate proper quotation marks!
#1: @amazon
#2: @Wikipedia (or at least some of the bots running there) https://t.co/4gGSm4hCTv]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8120246873287761922016-12-22T20:35:51.000Z<![CDATA[I kind of miss all the mirrors and negatives of pre-digital typography. https://t.co/AWdCytmUqE]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8106320278042992652016-12-19T07:08:54.000Z<![CDATA[Seeing Santiago Calatrava’s buildings in València was a profound experience to me. https://t.co/BoLshhOgKg]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8030577572973117442016-11-28T02:11:53.000Z<![CDATA[Trying to compile some of my programs from 20 years ago.
Do 10K lines of Pascal mean I’m a real programmer? https://t.co/tXmI88I6Um]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/7670556390926581762016-11-25T19:24:10.000Z<![CDATA[I love this story of the most unusual cryptographic device you can think of… a Barbie Typewriter! https://t.co/49AilKjkT5 https://t.co/dHEuHI2a2v]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8016766597367889922016-11-24T06:44:32.000Z<![CDATA[This note in a used book I just bought broke my heart: thirty years ago, wife reminiscing her husband who I imagine passed away by then. https://t.co/eQxIyXKHGW]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8016273561461719042016-11-24T03:26:20.000Z<![CDATA[I’m beginning to suspect Catalonia is some sort of heaven for people interested in keyboards.]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/8000527056243548162016-11-19T19:40:47.000Z<![CDATA[Love for bridges *and* fear of heights has always been an annoying combination… https://t.co/nr9CfNuWsW]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/7916777066268631052016-10-29T21:49:00.000Z<![CDATA[So, something magical happened to me today, and I wanted to tell you all about it.]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/7917098950831022092016-10-27T20:02:55.000Z<![CDATA[Biggest discovery of the first day of #TypeCon: there was actually one case where underscores existed in print!!! https://t.co/8R5k68zt5q]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/7689716083419504642016-09-18T19:45:26.000Z<![CDATA[At the Vintage Computer Festival, checking out some early emoji. https://t.co/o3aXBvhC3i]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/7619706679400284162016-08-07T01:04:23.000Z<![CDATA[“None of this has happened, but all of this is true” is the best take summarizing my conflicted feelings about Sorkin’s Steve Jobs movie.]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/7479783703029104642016-07-15T03:41:31.000Z<![CDATA[New mystery: What is the symbol on this key? cc @shadychars + @WideSpacer https://t.co/zehgSIUU7y]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/7360406672106455042016-05-27T04:51:40.000Z<![CDATA[Washington’s infrastructure. https://t.co/jImvfUERYn]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/7222901206493798402016-04-24T15:32:05.000Z<![CDATA[Driving a car onto a ferry for the first time! (Kind of nervous.)]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/7222339267233423362016-04-19T21:37:53.000Z<![CDATA[Dear BART, drop the /PLSTN/SL. It’s cleaner. https://t.co/v9ps9x5CSq]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/7138031066187489282016-03-26T19:08:13.000Z<![CDATA[This is Marcin from the future coming back to pre-order James Gleick’s time travel book and to tell you about it: https://t.co/4nabpWrL1y]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/7126694555919769602016-03-25T05:12:36.000Z<![CDATA[So, so happy right now. https://t.co/IaW25G00uX]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/7065617624101314572016-03-09T04:12:43.000Z<![CDATA[At the best New Years’ Eve party where I can go through someone’s book of fractals and admire their notes. https://t.co/dLk06CxLaI]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/6827831140457512962016-01-01T05:58:19.000Z<![CDATA[Current status: negotiating a passage through the highest bridge in the U.S. with my fear of heights. https://t.co/o7ypZTZD4X]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/6609016082685460482015-11-01T20:21:58.000Z<![CDATA[The “smart” in “smart quotes” is more complicated than it might seem. I wrote about the messiness of typography: https://t.co/JP7NJbbkLW]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/6561513845432688642015-10-24T16:18:00.000Z<![CDATA[Guys! I bought a 91-year-old GPS unit and it still works. http://t.co/OteOJo351n]]>https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/4910355321896468502014-07-21T02:42:53.000Z