late 90's keyboards

what the fuck happened to keyboards during the late 90's / early 00's?

such a design nightmare, i get naceous just by looking at these. are they supposed to look futuristic? are they actually ergonomic? who let this happen and why?

do you type on one of these?

(im looking to buy a new keyboard btw)

The keyboard even looks like it's shrugging it's keyboard shoulders & going "lol fuck i dunno"

  On 12/16/2010 at 3:52 PM, Cryptowen said:

The keyboard even looks like it's shrugging it's keyboard shoulders & going "lol fuck i dunno"

lol (despite 'its')

lol

*vomits casually*

I always wanted to use one of these...

Something about this thread has me miss having a desktop computer, laptops really aren't the same.

hideous.

it's cheap, it's cheerful, and it does me right at work and at home - the dell sk-8115:

love these things, even if the space bar sucks. real workhorse.

lol your keyboard is a real workhorse lol

I'm rocking that dell one right now, hate it. At home I have one of the old apple bluetooth ones, it has a clear plastic base which allows me to display all the pubes, eyelashes, biscuit crumbs, dead skin and such that I've accidentally collected over the years and have no way of removing. GOOD ONE

MY KEEBARD WAS 5 BUCKS AT WAL-MART.

AM I DOING GOOD, GUYS?

I had one of those split curvy ergonomic ones at a job. It was great. I miss it.

backlit > ergonomic

  On 12/16/2010 at 3:49 PM, data said:

are they actually ergonomic? who let this happen and why?

if you're the sort that has carpal from typing nine hours a day, they help.

but you have to get used to them -- feels weird at first. i never got into them, but i know people who were batty over them. i just use wristrests....

im not cool enough to prefer 80s keyboards

edit: except the IBM model 1

  On 12/16/2010 at 7:30 PM, hahathhat said:

im not cool enough to prefer 80s keyboards

 

edit: except the IBM model 1

i believe you mean the ibm model m.

i would love one. they fetch crazy prices on ebay.

they are basically indestructible.

the powerglove was fucking terrible. i think the wii is more what they wanted.

i'll be getting one of these, though probably not the blank keys one ..

They look nice, I hate blue diodes though.

Sweet keyboards you posted. Check out these gadgets. I asked my girlfriend for the EPC Voyager 3650, but I told her not to look for it. Apparently it is still in beta. Can't beat that key pad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCmBAC_E9rk

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A minimalistic keyboard? Not bad. Not bad at all. And in German. Certainly not bad at all.

Edit: It needs more Helvetica. Lower-case. With a very limited spacing. Yeah.

  On 12/16/2010 at 7:25 PM, spratters said:

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/commodore-64-lives-again-same-keyboard-modern

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i was going to get one of these, but i went to their web site and it said "preorder" with a date a couple days in the future. wat? suspicious, i waited until that day and checked the site again. it said "preorder" still, with a different date, again a couple days in the future.

put me off enough to not risk sending them money.

nah those das keyboards are well-known. i don't think you have much to worry about

i think you can buy on thinkgeek or similar if you're really worried

okay, i have found teh answer for keyboards!!

http://www.keytronic.com/Home/shop/shop.asp

nerding out so hard now

edit: fixed link