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From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>
Cc: coff@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: [COFF] Typing "Internet" (was:  Happy birthday, the Internet!)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 10:01:45 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210408000145.GB32218@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a10a0b9c-7cff-3f11-5cf5-e7f3f4116622@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>


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On Wednesday,  7 April 2021 at 13:20:19 -0600, COFF wrote:
> On 4/6/21 9:38 PM, Rudi Blom wrote:
>> did you know ...
>>
>> capitalising internet means you have to hold the shift-key
>
> Nonsense.
>
> I can press the caps-lock key, type the "I", and then press the
> caps-lock key again.

... assuming that you have a CapsLock key.

> I'm sure there's a copy and paste method too.  ;-)

Or a spell checker.  Or an Emacs macro :-)

Greg
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  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-08  0:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-07  3:38 [COFF] Happy birthday, the Internet! Rudi Blom
2021-04-07 19:20 ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2021-04-08  0:01   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2021-04-08  9:06     ` [COFF] Typing "Internet" (was: Happy birthday, the Internet!) Harald Arnesen

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