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Then & Now: WCW on QWERTY


Then:

This is the alphabet q w e r t y u i o p a s d f g h j k l z x c v b n m. The extraordinary thing is that no one has yet taken the trouble to write it out fully.

–William Carlos Williams, “The Simplicity of Disorder” (1929)

Now:

1. qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm

A phenomena that happens to a computer’s keyboard when a human being is bored to death…

Bored to death in a cube a human decides to type qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm (all the keyboard buttons in an orderly way) to a search engine to see what comes up…

–urbandictionary.com (May 5, 2006)

Ah, those were the days!

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