I spent three months as a keyboard-only user. Here’s what I learned.

I spent three months as a keyboard-only user. Here’s what I learned.

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https://medium.com/@superplane39/i-spent-three-months-as-a-keyboard-only-user-heres-what-i-learned-d5d19ccbef35

Would you be able to use the internet for three months without a mouse? I did exactly that. Here’s what I learned.

A few months back, my laptop suffered a slight mishap — the cord, which was old and frayed, suddenly sparked, then smoked, and I found myself with a dead cord. No big deal — I could simply head over the local computer guy and replace it. Unfortunately, he didn’t have one that matched my computer. Alright.Being related to a tech geek, I had a couple old laptops sitting in the “graveyard”. I could take out the hard drive and put it into one of those, at least until I could replace my cord (or buy a new laptop). So, that evening, that’s what I did — I switched out the hard drives, and simply used that hardware.At the time, I had no way of knowing that doing that would end up changing how I looked at the web forever.

I spent three months as a keyboard-only user. Here’s what I learned.

Dec 30, 2018, 1:14am UTC
https://medium.com/@superplane39/i-spent-three-months-as-a-keyboard-only-user-heres-what-i-learned-d5d19ccbef35 > Would you be able to use the internet for three months without a mouse? I did exactly that. Here’s what I learned. > A few months back, my laptop suffered a slight mishap — the cord, which was old and frayed, suddenly sparked, then smoked, and I found myself with a dead cord. No big deal — I could simply head over the local computer guy and replace it. Unfortunately, he didn’t have one that matched my computer. Alright.Being related to a tech geek, I had a couple old laptops sitting in the “graveyard”. I could take out the hard drive and put it into one of those, at least until I could replace my cord (or buy a new laptop). So, that evening, that’s what I did — I switched out the hard drives, and simply used that hardware.At the time, I had no way of knowing that doing that would end up changing how I looked at the web forever.