alt.hn

2/15/2026 at 9:15:16 AM

Four Column ASCII (2017)

https://garbagecollected.org/2017/01/31/four-column-ascii/

by tempodox

2/15/2026 at 9:47:17 AM

This is also why the Teletype layout has parentheses on 8 and 9 unlike modem keyboards that have them on 9 and 0 (a layout popularised by the IBM Selectric). The original Apple IIs had this same layout, with a “bell” on top of the G.

by rbanffy

2/16/2026 at 4:22:52 AM

What happened to this block and the keyboard key arrangement?

  ESC  [  {  11011
  FS   \  |  11100
  GS   ]  }  11101
Also curious why the keys open and close braces, but ... the single and double curly quotes don't open and close, but are stacked. Seems nuts every time I type Option-{ and Option-Shift-{ …

by Terretta