▲ 1107 ▼ Say it ain't so (thelemmy.club) submitted 3 months ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/memes@lemmy.world 277 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 97 points 3 months ago (2 children) They didn't teach typing when I was in school. I guess it's an assumed skill? Anywho, I still knew what those notches/bumps were for :3 permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] scops@reddthat.com 15 points 3 months ago (2 children) Out of curiosity, about when were you in grade school? I learned touch typing in the late 90s in middle school. I remember laminated construction paper taped to each keyboard so we could learn visually first, then had to flip it over and cover our hands to start developing the muscle memory for each set of keys. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] AyuTsukasa@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 months ago Not who you asked but I was in highschool in the 2010s and they had a typing class but it was an elective. permalink fedilink source parent [–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 3 points 3 months ago We didn't start IT until 5th grade, which would've been in 2012-2013 :3 permalink fedilink source parent [–] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago 80s kid here, we learned on typewriters and the shared apple ii in the library. I was good at it because I knew piano and it just settled easy in my mind. I made it mandatory for my kids to learn because I just knew this shit would be needed. Also didn’t allow for short words like LOL until they could type it out. Daughter got to a point where her “laugh out loud” was amazingly fast and she begged me to let her “be normal” lmfao. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] scops@reddthat.com 15 points 3 months ago (2 children) Out of curiosity, about when were you in grade school? I learned touch typing in the late 90s in middle school. I remember laminated construction paper taped to each keyboard so we could learn visually first, then had to flip it over and cover our hands to start developing the muscle memory for each set of keys. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] AyuTsukasa@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 months ago Not who you asked but I was in highschool in the 2010s and they had a typing class but it was an elective. permalink fedilink source parent [–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 3 points 3 months ago We didn't start IT until 5th grade, which would've been in 2012-2013 :3 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AyuTsukasa@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 months ago Not who you asked but I was in highschool in the 2010s and they had a typing class but it was an elective. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 3 points 3 months ago We didn't start IT until 5th grade, which would've been in 2012-2013 :3 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago 80s kid here, we learned on typewriters and the shared apple ii in the library. I was good at it because I knew piano and it just settled easy in my mind. I made it mandatory for my kids to learn because I just knew this shit would be needed. Also didn’t allow for short words like LOL until they could type it out. Daughter got to a point where her “laugh out loud” was amazingly fast and she begged me to let her “be normal” lmfao. permalink fedilink source parent
