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Episode 131:

Keyboard Warriors.

Runtime: 59 Minutes

Today, we used Sega's Typing of the Dead as inspiration to give you a history lesson on the typing game genre as a whole. As part of today's story, we'll teach you the history of typewriters and the QWERTY keyboard as they gave way to the electronic keyboards that we all use daily. We'll also learn about a number of early education touch typing games, including TypeQuick, Typing Tutor and Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. We'll continue with a conversation about modern typing games, including the Typing of the Dead series, the Epistory Chronicles, and the Textorcist. Get ready to learn proper finger placement as we take today's trip down Memory Card Lane.

Typing of the Dead

References:

Additional Sources:

  Wikipedia, "John Jonathon Pratt"
  Wikipedia, "Sholes and Glidden typewriter"
  Wikipedia, "Touch Typing"
  Wikipedia, "QWERTY"
  Wikipedia, "Computer Keyboard"
  Wikipedia, "Typequick"
  Archive.org, "TRS-80 Manual: Microsoft Typing Tutor (1979)"
  Wikipedia, "Touch Typist Typing Tutor"
  Wikipedia, "Osborne Effect"
  Wikipedia, "Osborne Effect"
  Wikipedia, "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing"
  Wikipedia, "The Typing of the Dead"
  Wikipedia, "Kewala's Typing Adventure"
  Wikipedia, "Typo Attack"
  Wikipedia, "Epistory - The Typing Chronicles"
  Wikipedia, "Nanotale - The Typing Chronicles"
  Wikipedia, "The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia"
  Wikipedia, "TypeRacer"
  Wikipedia, "Learn with Pokemon: Typing Adventure"
  Wikipedia, "David Lynch Teaches Typing"

Audio Sources:

Cold Open Music:

Bleeping Demo by Kevin MacLeod (incompletech.com)

Link: https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Podcast Intro Music:

Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4171-open-those-bright-eyes

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/