Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Survival of the Typist

When the Macintosh first came out in 1984, it  "...came with the Macintosh Intro, a disk that held a little tutorial explaining how to use various parts of the Mac. Among the topics covered was what a mouse is and how to use it (and even that you can lift it off the table and put it down in another spot to have more space to move in a particular direction).

According to various reports, when someone suggested to include a touch-typing tutorial in this intro as well, since many people did not know how to use a keyboard, Steve Jobs simply said not to bother as those people would die out eventually."

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