Want to freak out a newsroom full of college journalists?
Sit them down at manual typewriters and ask them to plunk “2011″ onto a piece of paper.
They’ll only make it halfway.
“Mine’s broken!” one reporter at Florida Atlantic University yelled a couple of Saturdays ago, when we launched the inaugural ALL ON PAPER project.
“There’s no number 1 key.”
“This one is busted, too!” yelled another.
“They’re not broken,” I replied. “Manual typewriters didn’t have a number 1 key. They used a lower-case L instead.”
“Seriously?” asked the first reporter.
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