Timeline for Why are special characters such as "carriage return" represented as "^M"?
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| S Jun 19, 2017 at 12:24 | history | suggested | Palec | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
More natural and complete attribution of the image. The image links to the file being displayed and has sensible alternate text.
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| S Apr 2, 2017 at 23:48 | history | suggested | Stephen Rauch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Restore image link via https version
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| Jun 27, 2014 at 7:15 | audit | Low quality posts | |||
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| Jun 12, 2014 at 18:22 | audit | Low quality posts | |||
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| Jun 11, 2014 at 11:48 | comment | added | dotancohen | @DanielRHicks: I'll get off your lawn now! | |
| Jun 11, 2014 at 11:46 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | @dotancohen - Yeah, and my wife is really after me to take it off and wash it. | |
| Jun 11, 2014 at 5:32 | comment | added | dotancohen | @DanielRHicks: I understand that you're still wearing T-shirts from the mid 70's! | |
| Jun 11, 2014 at 0:40 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | @dotancohen - I can probably still find it in my sleep. | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 15:29 | comment | added | dotancohen | Thanks, I did not even recognize what was written there on two lines! | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 15:16 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | @dotancohen - Second row, far right, next to LINE FEED. | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 12:35 | comment | added | dotancohen | I don't see a dedicated "RETURN" key, but I do see a LineFeed key. Is that what you mean? | |
| Jun 8, 2014 at 11:38 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | It is interesting to note that the Ctrl key survives to this day on PC keyboards. | |
| Jun 8, 2014 at 10:27 | comment | added | Stuart Golodetz | @DanielRHicks - I guess the thought it makes me have is that perhaps the gap between what we consider "modern" and "ancient" technology isn't nearly as large as one might think it is. Indeed, much supposedly modern technology incorporates things with very old roots, although each generation thinks they're doing everything from scratch. Those young'n's :) | |
| Jun 8, 2014 at 1:05 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | @CaptainCodeman - When you transmitted an important message you'd ring the bell to get the attention of the operator on the other end. | |
| Jun 8, 2014 at 0:08 | comment | added | CaptainCodeman | This is fascinating but what I don't understand is.. why of all things did they decide this typewriter needed a bell? | |
| Jun 7, 2014 at 17:29 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | @StuartGolodetz - Actually, I find it strangely reassuring. But then I remember when Teletypes were "advanced technology". (The Teletype ASR-33, by the way, was remarkable for it's elegant simplicity. I only wish that "modern" computer systems were as well-designed.) | |
| Jun 7, 2014 at 16:15 | comment | added | Stuart Golodetz | On some level the extent to which we are still bound by design choices made for what now seem like ancient systems is quite surprising - I guess on reflection that (a) it's not that long ago, it's just that the pace of change in the interim has been astonishing, and (b) if enough design decisions are made, some of them (especially the ones that don't cause people enough problems) are bound to stick around long after the reasons for them disappear into memory. Still an odd feeling to look back at the history of some of these things though. | |
| Jun 6, 2014 at 23:13 | history | edited | Daniel R Hicks | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 6, 2014 at 22:01 | history | answered | Daniel R Hicks | CC BY-SA 3.0 |