My middle school had these, and a typing course. None of our words-per-minute scores improved so much as an iota until Christmas break, when we all started usin

My middle school had these, and a typing course. None of our words-per-minute scores improved so much as an iota until Christmas break, when we all started using instant messengers at home. Our teacher was flabbergasted that AIM did more to improve out typing habits than a semester's worth of instruction. We also used them to make sideways ASCII art that you had to scroll through. Things like city skylines and battle scenes.