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Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver

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113 points foxmoss | 2 comments | 23 Jun 25 19:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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throw0101c ◴[23 Jun 25 20:31 UTC] No.44359768[source]▶
"Flip phone typing" = T9:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_(predictive_text)

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rfl890 ◴[23 Jun 25 20:34 UTC] No.44359794[source]▶
the library is named libt9, I believe the author is aware of this...
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szszrk ◴[23 Jun 25 21:11 UTC] No.44360163[source]▶
Then why is a flip phone in the title? That was not specific to flip phones at all.
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stronglikedan ◴[23 Jun 25 21:24 UTC] No.44360288[source]▶
Because vastly more people will know what "flip phone typing" is over "T9 typing".
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jmbwell ◴[23 Jun 25 23:13 UTC] No.44361171[source]▶
I figured other way around… Kids These Days might be more likely to have heard of a “flip phone” than “t9” and thus “engage” with this “content”
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1. foxmoss ◴[24 Jun 25 02:34 UTC] No.44362386{3}[source]▶
I had not heard of T9 before starting the project and getting interested, I'm too young to have experienced owning a pre-touch screen phone. I don't know if the average HN reader knows what T9 is, so I went with a term that I was fairly certain most people would be familiar with. Is that so people engage with my work? I certainly found the project fascinating, I made the library to share that fascination. If I can get more people to implement and use T9 and alike systems I think my work has has been a success.
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2. jmbwell ◴[24 Jun 25 14:11 UTC] No.44366474[source]▶
Nice! I clearly made an assumption that you were an Old like me :D