I learned to type at school. It was one of the best things I ever did. I was taught on a huge contraption of a typewriter that was bolted to a flip-over desk that would take your fingers off if you didn't open it correctly. We got to use purple carbon paper and had to stick little bits of paper over the keys to try to make us touch-type. Even though it all sounds very 1968, it was in fact 1988.
Fifteen years on and I now never seem to be more than 15 minutes away from a keyboard. And where there's a keyboard, there's email. I've know I've written about this before, but just how did people communicate before Outlook Express?
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