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> As for Yours Truly, teenage peer pressure kept me from riding the touch typing train. Per the sexist suppositions of way-back-when, before computers went main
by Natsu 14y ago
> As for Yours Truly, teenage peer pressure kept me from riding the touch typing train. Per the sexist suppositions of way-back-when, before computers went mainstream, keyboards were for secretaries, and secretaries were female. Dudes just didn’t do that kind of thing.
I took the hard way out. I took "Secretarial Office Procedures" in high school just to learn typing.
- tommorris 14y agoWhen I was a kid, about 9 or 10, my mother taught me to type. As a teenager, she had gone to secretarial college and had become a legal secretary typing up documents for lawyers before getting married. I learned on a manual typewriter. I was the weird kid who typed up school reports on a manual typewriter before computers were widespread. Along with basic sewing, it's one of the most useful things my mother taught me. We should teach every schoolchild to touch type.
- Natsu 14y agoIt was incredibly embarrassing at the time, but I'm very grateful to have learned touch typing.
- tudorw 14y agoI taught myself on a life size printed version of the Sinclair Spectrum that was part of the promotional materials, I was gutted when I found out that coding on the real thing required a bizarre set of keyboard combinations unrelated to QWERTY... the skills have come in handy in the following decades though ;)