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I like to journal when traveling and in the late 90s or early 2000s I sometimes went to local Internet Cafés and send travel report of the past few days to myself via email.

One time in Turkey on a computer with a filthy monitor and a very worn out keyboard I was close to despair because my emails were undeliverable.

It took me quite a while to realize that the key where every other keyboard layout has the letter i had an i without a dot. The regular dotted i was some key combo.



My “high-security” email password for a while was a couple of words, but typed one key to the right.

Even I didn’t know what my password was.

While travelling, Had to lookup an image of a qwerty keyboard to figure out what it was.


Hah, I had something similar when travelling in Norway. The keyboard was almost identical but I think two keys were the other way round.

It took me far too long to work out why I kept miss-typing things.




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