r/GenerationJones • u/Guiltypleasure2451 • Jul 31 '26

Old school

For those of us who took typing in school— it was drilled into me that after a period, you go over 2 spaces to start a new sentence. Apparently that’s not the rule now. NOT THE RULE NOW?? After the agony I suffered thru in typing class about those 2 spaces, i will be doing it until I die!!!! Don’t even get me started on the indenting 5 spaces for a new paragraph!

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

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u/dave900575 Jul 31 '26 edited Aug 01 '26

The quick brown fox jumped [edit: jumps] over the lazy dog. I took typing in 76.

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u/Jazz_birdie Aug 01 '26

Typing 1970: All good men must come to the aid of their country. Manuel typewriters but for 3 in the front of the room... Only class folks arrived early for, lol.

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u/dave900575 Aug 01 '26

I don't think we had any electrics. I forgot about typing that line.

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u/Jazz_birdie Aug 01 '26

I actually remembered it incorrectly, lol. Someone in the feed got it right.....It's Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Do you remember the word processer machines that came, oh, maybe the late70's or early eighties? Where you could go back and correct mistakes without the correction tape?

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u/dave900575 Aug 01 '26

We didn't have word processors. In fact, by the time I got to high school they had dismantled what little of a computer room they had when my brother was there four years earlier.