How I use my terminal

The entire blog post being in lowercase distracted me more than I thought it would.

Kids these days. That's how many of us who grew up online in the 90s to early aughts have been doing things for 30+ years.

I think many of us abandoned it when we went professional. Or abandoned it in those contexts but still do it in others. I don't do it on HN, clearly - but I do it almost everywhere else. It's much more natural to me to skip capitals.

I believe there was also a period in the transition to ubiquitous smartphones where it wasn't an option to turn off auto-caps, or maybe there just wasn't the fine-grained control of which auto-correct you use on mobile devices that there is now. I suspect that killed some all-lowercase habits. I think that's why I ended up with a "normal" style on HN where I use caps and normal punctuation (I don't usually use periods for sentences that terminate a paragraph outside of HN.)

I'm 40, but the only place I have ever abandoned proper casing is in the specific case of single-sentence text/chatroom messages (and later, 4chan posts), where I also omit the period. And even then, I only abandon sentence-casing - e.g. "I", proper nouns, etc are still capitalized. I never adopted that style in other places though, like forums. And I'm definitely not used to seeing entire chunks of prose in this more extreme version of that format (no uppercases at all, rather than just no sentence-casing).