Haha. I don’t remember how many posts I had on SLUniverse but 100% of them, there and here, were typed on my phone.
Including the ones on New World Notes? head asplodes again.
Internet forums and email are phone things to me. I never check either of them at home on my computer. Computers are gaming and discord chat and other forums of instant messaging to me.
But but but...real keyboards! I'm a touch typist
Sure, plenty cool IRC clients (I liked Mozilla one oddly ... as it had xml themes) but you cannot manage it in a way you would forum with all user groups and channels. You can do so on a server but not a room on it.
You can, but in general it requires the server to offer services like NickServ or ChanServ, or else having an IRC bot hosted on some 'nix instance that manages the channel.
It’s an ancient original iPhone 6 (no S/C). I type with two thumbs.
Are you a touch typist on regular keyboards?
in my case I’m kind of fascinated that so many people here seem to use IRC. Outside of this website, literally nobody I know has used it, if they even know what it is.
I've used it, but don't use it often these days, much more often in the past before SL. I always have a client installed, hexchat these days. One of the reasons we have used IRC is that most of us have been using the Internet for many years. 20 years for me.
I was going to say I considered it a dead chat medium, like Skype. Except that I’m fully well aware IRC has a ton of users they are just nobody I know.
Plenty of skype users too, and again, I keep it installed though use it rarely.
It's just that I find writing anything more than a sentence or two on a phone to be a pain due to having to have the keyboard big enough to not fat-finger all the time while still having enough screen space for the text.
I set up the phone virtual keyboard to be more like a traditional keyboard.
Whether you’re used to typing on your computer or on a phablet like Galaxy Note, you need the number row. While there are plenty of keyboard apps to bring you this feature, you can add number row to Google Keyboard. So if you’re using a third-party keyboard app especially for the number row...
updato.com
it helps but takes up more screen space. Again, if I'm going to be doing a LOT of typing on the tablet, out will come the bluetooth keyboard.
I know there's also the old-style keying from the number pad but that used to give me trouble too.
click-click-lick oops, too far click-click-click-click, next letter
T9, god that was awful:
T9 (predictive text) - Wikipedia
I haven't used IRC since the late ninties and usenet since the mid noughties.
My ISP dropped their netnews server a few years back, since I had no need for the binaries groups I started using eternal-september.org though again, I don' tuse USENET often.
In addition to IRC, I recall AIM, ICQ and there was something else that used to be common.
Yahoo and MSN were the other big ones.
Just to further derail, did anyone else use the custom 'font' abilities on the VAX to make logos?
Do you mean fonts like these:
vt100.net
Or do you mean DECgraphics:
en.wikipedia.org
www.fontsquirrel.com
