15 Jan
1999
15 Jan
'99
5:33 a.m.
> This custom seemed to disappear in the mid 80s.
Sometimes I get to thinking
> of the things that have changed, and when and why. Another example that
> comes to mind - I quite clearly remember about 10 years ago thinking how
> useless the tilde (~) was on a keyboard. Of course, now we are all
> net-bound it's used all the time. I wonder if there are other examples of
> ins/outs that you oldies remember and would care to share. Things that were
> ubiquitous and no longer with us.
Well, certainly the '@' symbol was entirely
useless until internet e-mail.
@ was (is) beside $ and # the only character to be used at the
begin of a name (macro, label, module, SNA station, etc.) in some
(old) environments, since they are handled as letters.
And how many people actually use function keys any
more in the age of the
GUI and mouse?
ALT-F4 -> the only usefull anwer to Windows :)
Gruss
H.
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HRK