Today I learned...
I love bits of tech history like this.
Why does Vim use `hjkl` for navigation? The usual answer is "it keeps your hands on the home row", while the historical answer is "because Bill Joy developed vi on the ADM-3A, which didn't have arrow keys". But we can push the history further back: why did THE ADM use `hjkl`?
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12:21 AM ยท Nov 12, 2020
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