A closer look
Qwerty keyboard layouts on early mobile phones required traumatized users to press physical number keys multiple consecutive times just to type a single specific letter in a brutal practice known as multi-tap text entry, forcing teenagers in the early two-thousands to develop an almost superhuman thumb dexterity capable of composing heavily abbreviated messages while keeping the phone completely hidden inside their jacket pockets during high school math class, a deeply painful physical skill that was entirely replaced by modern predictive text which successfully eliminated repetitive finger cramps but introduced the psychological torment of accidentally sending unhinged autocorrected messages to your boss
