excell
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Posted: 2006-Mar-14 13:33
Google tips question..
Tip: Save time by hitting the return key instead of clicking on "search".. ok.. but what is the "return key" a newbie asks - do they mean "enter" key?
Are Google trying to teach / direct?
What do you think?
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Dinkar
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Posted: 2006-Mar-14 14:03
You'r right. Return key is the enter key. Many people type keyword and use mouse to click the search button. Using enter key is faster than using mouse.
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galway
Joined: Apr 26, 2004
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Posted: 2006-Mar-14 14:41
Have always called it the 'return key',
Wondered why both my children look blank and say 'you mean the enter key'. 
Why have I always called it the return key I NOW ask myself?? (off to see my Internet shrink).
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SportsGuy
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Posted: 2006-Mar-14 14:55
Word on the key is "Enter".
The symbol on the key represents "Carriage return" from back in the day...when there were first type-writers...and the point of hitting that "key" was to returnt he typing carriage to the start position for the next line.
Perhaps G is just getting nostalgic...?
Soon results will appear as flashcards with hand-drawn images...
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excell
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Posted: 2006-Mar-14 14:59
ROFLMAO... yup - I got em that time. Come now my dear modern fangled googie.. play ball - but give us some credibility ... OK? We ain't all old foggies from the PO
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g1smd
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Posted: 2006-Mar-14 20:07
Err, can I say this?
I'm so geeky that I type my own search URL out in the URL bar.
They always start with http://www.google.com/search?num=100 and often continue with &filter=0 and always end with &q=the+query+string noting that %22 is used for quotes, and the + symbol separates the individual words.
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JQ
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Posted: 2006-Mar-14 20:27
On a Mac keyboard it's called the "return" key. And "backspace" is called "delete". Here's a close-up of a Mac keyboard:
[link]
And g1smd, I hope you don't get carpal tunnel from all that extra typing you do.
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newtvail
Joined: Jan 07, 2006
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Posted: 2006-Mar-14 21:37
Dating myself I think but I distinctly remember how thrilled I was to get a typewriter with a button that would return the carriage rather than a lever I had to grab to manually pull the typewriter carriage back to the leftmost position. IBM made it I think and the early one had manual keys with the carriage return being the only electronic part.
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JQ
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Posted: 2006-Mar-14 22:35
LOL @ newtvail. I learned to type on a manual typewriter back in high school. Remember when the IBM Selectric was the bees knees? We must be getting old. 
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SportsGuy
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Posted: 2006-Mar-14 22:40
Oh guys & gals - will you believe me when I say I'm laughing WITH you, and not at you...? 
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Prowler
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Posted: 2006-Mar-15 07:22
I started into this when I borrowed a manual type writer circa 1909 from my great grandfather when I was in my teens.
By that token I must be the oldest.
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newtvail
Joined: Jan 07, 2006
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Posted: 2006-Mar-15 23:07
If you got a typewriter from your great grandfather in 1909 when you were in your teens, then I'd have to say that yes, you are basically older than dirt. 
I can tell you for sure that starting your first website of any sort at age 60 and then diving into learning at least the fundamentals of SEO is a great way to keep the mind active.
It takes me a bit longer to grasp new stuff than it did 20-30 years ago but it is still possible and is turning out to be lots of fun.
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SportsGuy
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Posted: 2006-Mar-16 00:07
The Internet is blind to age, even Prowler's...
Let's see - 1909, eh? We'll GIVE you the benefit here, and say you were 19 when you got said type-setting & transference device.
My guess is you're about 47 now...which, incidentally, isn't that old at all...
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Prowler
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Posted: 2006-Mar-16 04:05
I didn't say I got the typewriter in the year 1909. I borrowed the typewriter in the late seventies. It was a Remington portable. I still have the typewriter with me with its original bill tucked away in a corner.
SportsGuy is closer but not close enough.
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SportsGuy
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Posted: 2006-Mar-16 15:46
I smell a bottle of merlot and eBay coming on, Prowler...
Is that typewriter a retirement fund?
Is there a prize for guessing your age - the typewriter, maybe...?
Is the typewriter sorta, kinda like this? Scroll down a bit...
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Prowler
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Posted: 2006-Mar-17 04:51
>>Is that typewriter a retirement fund?
No. I view that as an object which reminds me of my past.
The grandfather must have been a touch typist for I could 'see' that he pounded on the typewriter and finished a page in a seemingly short time.
I am not a touch typist. I hunt and peck all the time, but I manage to type a lot of words ... in a standard desktop computer keyboard.
>>Is the typewriter sorta, kinda like this? Scroll down a bit...
No. Mine is black and looks more like the one on the top of the page sans the grotesque metal trappings. Remington made an elegant typewriter for that time.
>> Is there a prize for guessing your age - the typewriter, maybe...?
Why not ?
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galway
Joined: Apr 26, 2004
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Posted: 2006-Mar-17 10:55
Well I also moved from a typwriter to a word processor, the problem was that it was soooo heavy i could hardly lift it, very much like the first printer that I had, it needed its very own desk.
Ahhhh then there was the commodore 64 the games machine to die for.
Off down memory lane now, cya.
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SportsGuy
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Posted: 2006-Mar-17 14:50
TRS-80
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excell
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Posted: 2006-Mar-18 14:09
Telex machines. Bwuffl!
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gamz
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Posted: 2006-Mar-18 15:31
SportsGuy those are some pretty cool old skool laptops there.
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