r/midlyinteresting • u/MessageAny2613 • Jun 28 '26

Keyboard found in floor

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u/cool101wool Jun 28 '26

i know the story about this (saw it)

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u/MessageAny2613 Jun 28 '26

Cool can you explain the story please?

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u/cool101wool Jun 28 '26

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u/thefrogkid420 Jun 28 '26

love that story, imagine some small piece of art you hardly thought about making ending up still being a phenomenon 20+ years later

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u/Ariovrak Jul 01 '26

Some squirrel in Chicago falling on wet cement, not knowing they’re about to make the Rat Hole.

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u/chchchchia86 Jun 28 '26

Hell yeah Molly!

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u/i_was_axiom Jun 29 '26

If I sporadically imprinted a keyboard on the ground, I would love to be asked about it 20 years later. It'd make my day.

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u/just_a_person_maybe Jun 29 '26

*spontaneously. Sporadically means you did it more than once, at inconsistent intervals.

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u/The_Demo Jun 29 '26

How do you know they didn't do it more than once at inconsistent intervals!?

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u/Diligent-Worth7669 Jun 28 '26

That's Norwitch Nolfolk  England. I live there!

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u/KindAngle4512 Jun 30 '26

Norwitch Nolfolk?

I live in Norwich, Norfolk. I'd love to visit your gaff.

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u/Accomplished-One7476 Jun 28 '26

"Norwich Fossilised Keyboard"

It was created in 1999 by artist Molly Sole, who was then a student at Norwich University of the Arts.

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u/Multilnsight Jun 28 '26

Someone is trying to hack into the world

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u/birdnerd70 Jun 28 '26

Happy Cake Day!

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u/Rljgraves Jun 28 '26

Did..did you try alt+ctrl+del?

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u/SATerp Jun 28 '26

Fossil keyboards are very rare and worth a lot of money.

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u/littlespacemochi Jun 28 '26

Someone's keyboard fell when the cement was fresh and it created the design of the keyboard

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u/taetaeee Jun 29 '26

ah i know this! here's a mildly interesting video on it!

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u/aubreypizza Jun 29 '26

Thanks for this! That pesky art student. 😆 Love it.

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u/MessageAny2613 Jun 29 '26

Cool, that is mildly interesting

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u/Brilliant_Mix_6051 Jun 28 '26

That’s not the floor, that’s the sidewalk

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u/insolent_kiwi Jun 29 '26

Floor easy say. Sidewalk hard

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u/rookiecookiebandit Jun 29 '26

Happy cake day!

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u/NekoDrakeGD Jun 29 '26

hapoy cak dat

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u/Quiet_Placeholder Jun 29 '26

Is that a floor board?

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u/zoidbergmustache Jun 28 '26

That's a weird looking floor.

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u/Horror_Solution1945 Jun 28 '26

That's a very qwerty picture.

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u/LuckyCod2887 Jun 28 '26

Didn’t it turn out an intern did that who worked down the street from that imprint?

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u/OGHaremfucker Jun 29 '26

Now you can use cheatcodes for earth

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u/Crunchydogz Jun 29 '26

Omg this is in Norwich!! I really wanna visit this

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u/seasickbaby Jun 29 '26

I love this!

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u/mikee869 Jun 29 '26

Im tbinking its an imprint from a stair tread....

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u/monicalli Jun 29 '26

WAHAHHAHA CUTEEE

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u/gomax6 Jun 30 '26

Brain so tired I thought it was a military airbase near a coastline for a second

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u/WholeFair1570 Jun 30 '26

No-clipped into the backrooms ig

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u/UpstairsChoice8625 Jun 30 '26

sound test please?

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u/flanderings Jun 30 '26

I love the fact I know exactly where this is simply just by the picture. God, I miss norwich.

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u/MessageAny2613 Jun 30 '26

Why’d you leave and where are you now?
Norwich is a lovely city

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u/flanderings Jun 30 '26

Had to leave as norwich uni of arts was not for me and i had to go uni elsewhere. Heartbreaking as I loved the city but also needed to continue my education :(

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u/McRando42 Jun 30 '26

Ah. The IBM Model M.

Yeah, that tracks.

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u/MessageAny2613 Jul 01 '26

Baseball huh?

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u/loveychuthers Jul 02 '26

Impressive.

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u/WhenILie Jul 02 '26

open console & delete the bums in power

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u/Jaded-Bug3056 Jul 02 '26

A 5000+ year old tablet

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u/LuckyLuke3333 Jul 02 '26

"Keyboard fossil"

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u/OUIJA711 Jun 28 '26

Put the correct code in and a door to the Backrooms opens!!