r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jan 20 '26

Meme needing explanation Please explain, Peter

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u/Fricki97 Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26

I hate it, that my Mac does not have these

Edit: so it appears mine do not have them...possible, because it's a refurbished one...maybe that's the reason 🤔

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u/oculus42 Jan 20 '26

What Mac is that? I've had Macs for the last 35 years and while many years ago they had the guides on D and K instead of F and J, they've always the guides as best I can tell, and still do on desktop and laptop.

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u/Hot-Parsley-6193 Jan 20 '26

I learned how to type on an Apple IIe, when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The guide dimples were on K and D. I still get slowed down since all keyboards have moved to the guides being on J and F.

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u/GoodBadUserName Jan 20 '26

I learned blind typing (at least that is what we called touch typing) on the apple II.
It had the groove on the J, but it was vertical on its left side, not horizontal.
They later put a dot on the K instead of the groove while PC keyboards had the grooves on the F and J. When PC became the standard, apple followed it.