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  • cdf12345@lemmy.ziptomemes@lemmy.worldSay it ain't so
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    2 months ago

    I had to take “keyboarding” my freshman year of high school ( mid 90s), they had an option to opt out if you could type something like 30 words a minute, which I could, from all my messing around on my home PC.

    I will say though, I have long fingers and it’s extremely uncomfortable to type in the “proper” position using 8 fingers across the rows. I ended up making my own hybrid 6 finger system that has served me very well to this day, typically I can average around 50 WPM this way.

    Anyways, bypassing keyboarding allowed me to take Basic Programming it its place, and each year after our awesome teacher created a new programming class for us, Pascal, C++, Visual Basic and Java by the time we graduated.










  • cdf12345@lemmy.ziptoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldSeafood
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    3 months ago

    The  FCC met with  AT&T in November 1967 in order to choose the number.

    In 1968, the number was agreed upon. AT&T chose the number 911, which was simple, easy to remember, dialed quickly (999, with the phones in place at the time, would take longer).

    Because of the middle 1, which indicated a special number (see also  411 and 611), 911 worked well with the phone systems at the time. At the time, this announcement only affected the telephone companies; independent phone companies were not included in the emergency telephone plan. Alabama Telephone Company decided to implement it ahead of AT&T, choosing Haleyville, Alabama as the location.