Protestation-edition #1: My entire education feels like a fluke

DG: Are you double spacing after periods?

EM: yes
EM: why?

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DG: You're only supposed to do one space.

EM: you're supposed to double-space!
DG: Some English teachers have been telling students that because you were supposed to because of the way typewriters worked, but that fact didn't carry over to computers.
DG: If it makes you feel better, I always double space, the first one in this paper just looked bigger and it made me think of that.
EM: !
EM: this is a total revelation to me
EM: you just turned the world upside down
DG: And actually, a lot of websites when you double space on them, they automatically compress it to one.
EM: I was about to be snarky and all like nuh-uh
DG: lol :)
EM: but, I googled it and you're RIGHT
DG: I figured you would be.
EM: (headbang)
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EM: the thing is, we learned to type on computers!
EM: so why the hell did they ever teach us to double-space?
DG From teachers that learned on typewriters.
EM: worthless
DG: If you're like me, then you're going to be bothered by this revelation for a few weeks.  It was really annoying.
EM: I AM

{proof}