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To: Vaquero

This bit of printing trivia always fascinated me. It is kind of emblematic of how things used to be when us rabble didn’t own printing presses and the elites only controlled what we read.

Now we ALL have printing presses AND the means of distribution with the interweb thingy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETAOIN_SHRDLU


11 posted on 11/13/2010 4:23:47 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: abb
ETAOIN SHRDLU?

Wasn't that the kid from lower Manhattan who disappeared about 30 years ago??? or was that Etan Patz?

I will stick with QWERTY

14 posted on 11/13/2010 4:42:03 AM PST by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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