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2022-04-19
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Snippets from /home/trinity/homepage/computer.html
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Hello and welcome to the world of computing.
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This guide is intended to take you from a cursory or completely
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nonexistent knowledge of how computers work or even what a computer is to an
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understanding with which you're comfortable.
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As this guide will go on the manner of language will shift from
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conversational and casual to more formal and technical; this is because these
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earlier sections are more like learning to ride a bike, where you won't easily
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forget the basics, but the later sections are more like learning to build a
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bike, where you may need to reference the manual later.
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This is also a perpetually unfinished document, please refer to the
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<I>updated</I> date as its version if your citation format permits it.
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To start, let's run over some basic terminology.
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Many of these terms are ambiguous and will be better specified later.
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The Monitor
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The monitor (term taken from the verb <I>monitor</I>), or screen
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(term taken from the verb <I>screen</I>), is a raster display unit your
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computer controls. In some manner, which depends on the technology your monitor
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uses, there is being displayed some sort of content that your computer has
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generated. It may be these very words. Monitors are usually interchangeable but
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sometimes entire computers can be included in the monitor unit itself, the
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concept of which is known as <I>all-in-one computer units</I> because
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all components of the computer except input devices are in the same place (the
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monitor assembly).
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It's possible your computer doesn't have a monitor. Possibly, you're
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using a teletypewriter, which prints text output onto paper using ink, though
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this is unlikely as they were obsoleted fifty years ago in favor of "glass
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teletypes" (<I>glass</I> here refers to the glass tube of a cathode ray
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tube monitor). Possibly, you're using assistive technologies and aren't sighted.
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Or maybe you're making this entire document up and are in a dream. There are
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many ways to use computers that <I>don't</I> involve monitors but seeing
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as they're so common-place there's a very good likelihood you are indeed using
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one.
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The Key-board
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The keyboard is how many people input text into their computer. There
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are many types of keyboards. Most people use standard QWERTY (named such after
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the first five alphabetical runes that appear on the board) keyboards, where
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each button is one symbol and perhaps there are special buttons that change the
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meaning of the other buttons. There are also <I>chorded</I> keyboards,
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where each <I>combination</I> (or chord, like on a piano) of keys
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represents a symbol.
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Possibly, you're not using a keyboard at all, and are instead using
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assistive technologies such as speech recognition.
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My intent with the computer guide was to emphasize atypical but
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important interfaces between user and machine, to make the guide relevant to
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every single person who would read the guide. Making a guide only for those who
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are sighted, hearing, have feeling in their fingertips, can read small text, is
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ridiculous and limits the audience far too much. Accessibility is the future
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absolutely.
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2022-12-30
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I occasionally write blahposts a day in advance. And who will stop me?
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