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To be fair, they did say it was inspired by typewriters, and most old typewriters don't have a '1', so you type a lowercase 'l' instead.
by queuebert 2y ago
To be fair, they did say it was inspired by typewriters, and most old typewriters don't have a '1', so you type a lowercase 'l' instead.
- irundebian 2y agoThat are really old typewriters.
- fsckboy 2y agonot really, in the sense that it would be a really old typewriter, there aren't any new typewriters. I'm not super old, and typewriters I used in high school did not have a one. Nobody had an IBM Selectric at home. BTW on the same subject of fonts, you want to be able to distinguish between 1, l, and I which are not always distinguishable.
- irundebian 2y agoI just googled for some typewriter pictures and only really old typewriters didn't have a "1".
- pwg 2y agoActually, it was /most/ typewriters. Having a numeral one (1) key on a keyboard was something brought about by computer input keyboards (where there did, indeed, need to be a distinct numeral one separate from lower case-ell (l)). But for most typewriters, the ell (l) key also served as the numeral one key.
- amelius 2y agoThen don't call it "server". Call it "typewriter".
- rjmorris 2y agoHow did they type '2' on those old typewriters?
- hoppyhoppy2 2y agoThere was a "2" key, just no "1" key on some models.