Pieter Hintjen woke up one morning and wondered "What am I going to do with myself today?”
"I know", he thought "I'll start a cause, a campaign." But all the really worthwhile humanitarian ones had already been take so Pieter was left with the CAPSoff Campaign. (No not a hat free day!)
The campaign to rid our keyboards of the superfluous caps lock key while, not one of the great philanthropic causes of the decade is still one that needs to be taken up. We have put up with these archaic legacy input devices for far too long. The caps lock key is just a visible symptom of a greater problem. THE KEYBOARD AS WE KNOW IT HAS NO PLACE IN THE MODERN OFFICE. (oops that might be hard to do without a caps lock key :)). Most of what we see and use are just legacy features from bygone eras.
Even the QWERTY layout is inappropriate as it is an invention to prevent type bars from jamming together on typewriters.....haven’t had many type bar jams on my keyboard in the LAST TWO DECADES. (Whoops there I go caps locking again.).
Look I am not even going to go into to the range of useless keys like SysReq (oooh mines been shortened to SysRq…nearly missed that), Pause…PAUSE WHAT, Scroll Lock, the numbers 7 and 9……letters f, j and x. In fact all I really need on my keyboard is forward, back, left, right, fire and open. What else is there to life?
Anyway the campaign seems to be picking up speed. I signed the petition a couple of days ago at 142 and now there are already well over 800 signatories. So come on if we can’t save a whale let us at least try and ban a key and take one small step towards a newer brighter more modern input device.
Great! I'm in need of something new to get behind hehe
Posted by: techchick | Thursday, 24 August 2006 at 07:21 AM