Board:   [DoveNet] Programming
Subject: Small Type
From:    Mortar
Date:    Wed Jun 04, 2025 11:45

@VIA: EOTLBBS
  Re: Re: Cobol/gnucobol
  By: Nightfox to Boraxman on Fri May 30 2025 09:20:03

 > Do you think the use of the virtual keyboard has significantly changes how
 > people compose their replies?  In that they just write shorter, disjointed
 > comments?

Not really.  Using abbreviated text goes as far back as the telegraph, when sending a msg. was priced by the character, so brevity was paramount.  In the 90s, when PDAs with keyboards showed up, again, people would abbreviate their text, both forcomfort and cost.

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