Thursday, October 4, 2007

No deleting!

How different would electronic communication be if you couldn't use a backspace or delete key? Thihnk about it. What if typing was like writing in ink - once it's on the screen, the best you can do is strikeout.

Try this for a day, an hour, even just a single emial email or paragrpah paragraph. in case you're wondering <-s-> and <-/-s-> (remove the hyphens) are the HTML tags for strikes striketr strikethrough.

Can you imagint imagii imagine if we really had to deal with all of our typos and stupid stream-of-conv consciousness statements, rather than just hitting backspace?

By the way, I don't recommend trying this in an email or presentation intended for your boss. Feel free to give it a shot in a comment to this blog.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You cannot use the strikethrough tag in a comment.

Flipper said...

You obviously tried to use strikethrough and it failed, so you must have deleted your initial comment... in blatant violation of the spirit of this post.