Editing Talk:477: Typewriter

The spaces are because he's trying to alt-tab. [[Special:Contributions/98.201.111.246|98.201.111.246]] 22:21, 31 January 2013 (UTC)mr
:You are absolutely correct, and the is much more missing. So I did tag this as incomplete.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 18:31, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
::Ctrl+Tab, next tab in tab bar. Alt+Tab, next top level window on desktop. If he uses a browser based email program it could be either [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.117|108.162.249.117]] 01:44, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
:::Ctrl+Shift+Tab is back a tab. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.40|108.162.245.40]] 20:08, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

I don't know you , but it looks like a "Madlibs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madlibs) meets Firefox tabs" kind of letter to me. {{unsigned ip|141.101.103.206}}

Technically it's the carriage that holds the type hammers for the letters. The platen is the rubber cylinder that holds the paper in place for the hammers. The ribbon is between the hammer and paper. -gateway mike {{unsigned ip|173.245.55.119}}

The platen is indeed the rubber cylinder. The carriage, though, is the larger piece the platen is part of, which moves back and forth as you type. Hence "carriage return" at the end of a line. Either one works in this case, since the position of the next character is determined by moving the paper, not the hammers. {{unsigned ip|108.162.221.64}}

Unless there was a change in the way a browser worked between then and now, Ctrl-tab is not something you would type an URL into after hitting as it switched between already open tabs. You would need to use Ctrl-T to open a new tab where the cursor would then be in the address bar to type an URL to go to. CTrl-Tab with only 1 tab open does nothing. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.166|108.162.216.166]] 16:44, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
: This is less about Ctrl-tab but rather about Alt+Tab. The joke is that he would be typing within some text processor or email client, Alt-tab to the browser and enter an address there. --[[User:SlashMe|SlashMe]] ([[User talk:SlashMe|talk]]) 22:48, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

I had always seen this one as a somewhat unrealistic exaggeration, though lately I have found myself occasionally attempting to 2-finger tap to undo a line written with pencil on paper, with no success. Oh, the magic of technology. [[User:PotatoGod|PotatoGod]] ([[User talk:PotatoGod|talk]]) 05:45, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Maybe I'm missing something; why is this listed under 'Comics featuring Nate Silver'? [[User:BlackHat|BlackHat]] ([[User talk:BlackHat|talk]]) 22:52, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
:Because of there being 538.com in the list of sites he tried to alt-tab to. {{User:PoolloverNathan/Signature}} 22:15, 30 March 2021 (UTC)