???
Older people were taught to type that way.
It’s the reason a double-space on mobile gives you a period.
Discussion
I was never taught that way and there has been other signs wich made me believe that Nick could be Satoshi before I stopped caring about who Satoshi could be. The BitGold white paper for example which Nick release on his blog long before the Bitcoin white paper came out and he later felt - for some reason - that he should go back and change the publishing date.
But anyway, just caught the double space while I was reading a thread where Loop and Nick crossed knives.
No worries.
I dunno your age, but Nick likely learned typing on his own or in a class in the 70s. This was widely taught well through the 80s. Typing software kind of died out in the mid 90s.
Interesting catch, tho. A lot of people ascribe the use of the emdash to AI. But the reality is that most gen x’ers read and used this growing up, and thus heavily during the early decades of the internet (which is the bulk of AI training sets).
There’s this neat meta history to all of this. We should write a book. I’m nerdy enough to enjoy reading it.
I about that age 😉
I wonder if this is an American thing or perhaps "English" (as in language) thing. I was taught German in school and that language has it's very own grammatical braindances. For example we have der, die das for "the" but if I use das before a , it has one s. Were, if I use the same word right after a comma it has two S - dass. But I've never heard of "emdash". Thanks for sharing that with me.