[GreenKeys] Teletypes in Portal 2

[Christopher Story]

ok that is very cool... thanks for sharing... kinda makes you feel like some of the people making these games aren’t completely clueless about the past.  I write software for a large global company, and i can tell you most of them coming around now are utterly clueless..

Chris

> On Jul 11, 2017, at 18:00, Jordan Spencer Cunningham <js at cunni.co> wrote:
> 
> I don't play video games very often, but when I do, I'm usually sick; that's the only time I'm too physically incapacitated to do much else and thus don't feel under pressure to get everything on my ever growing to-do list done.
> 
> I happened to fall ill the other day and decided to play Portal 2 for the first time. It's a very interesting storyline as far as games go, but what surprised me is that I found some teletypes in the bottommost condemned testing area (circa ~1950s), four or five kilometers below the Earth's surface. For the uninitiated, I've attached a screenshot.
> 
> The closer to the surface you go, the newer the testing facilities are, and the newer the technology in them becomes. Teletypes morphed into giant mainframes with amber CRT terminals, which morphed into Apple ][-like desktop computers with what appear to be 5-1/4-inch floppy drives. It's always fun to see old technology portrayed in modern popular culture, even if it's inaccurate or completely made up. Most players I'm sure have no clue what these are, nor do they care. Those darn millennials [shakes cane at passers by].
> 
> The game designers either didn't realize or didn't care that they only put 20 keys on their teletype model. I won't say I know for sure that there's never been such a thing, but I highly doubt it. I can't think of a reason for only twenty keys because even the languages with unusually few letters that I know of (like Hawaiian or Tagalog) still use Latin characters, which would work just fine on any common machine with Latin characters.
> 
> Anyway, I thought this was interesting enough to share.
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