2004: 24-Letter Typewriters Jun 10, 2020
Printing press, often designed in the Holy Roman Empire, led to the permanent loss of several letters in English, and so did the typewriter, but only temporarily. In early US typewriters, there were only 24 keys for the letters, though of course the alphabet has 26 letters. The way this was done was a doubling up of the letters I and O with the numbers 1 and 0.
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