4 Jan
2002
4 Jan
'02
6:25 a.m.
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Chris wrote:
This is actually a now outdated custom. I think it was
originally
there as old type presses has a small space character, so two were
needed to make decent enough room to tell a sentence ended. I think it
carried over to original typwriters, and then into early word
processing... but now, it is outdated, and no longer taught (at least
not by newer typing teachers... I bet the nuns at my wife's old
highschool still teach two spaces).
Haven't you ever considered that the reason it isn't taught anymore today
is because the teachers who are now teaching didn't pay attention in
school when THEY were being taught the standard?
Of course, it could also have been dropped out of
laziness, and just
changed out of force from the new generation just not bothering with a
2nd space.
It's sort of like photocopying a photocopy. Each successive copy
degenerates to the point where it's eventually just all black.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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