@CDisillusion this ain& #39;t it. Please do not encourage people to "venture" anything when it comes to critical thinking and debunking falsehoods--

You& #39;re encouraging people to reason based on circumstantial evidence and things they do not understand... https://twitter.com/CDisillusion/status/1385823708095426560">https://twitter.com/CDisillus...

And, you are unfortunately 100% INCORRECT about your reasoning.

1A) "mechanical typewriter" means "electromechanical typewriter", unless you& #39;re from the 1950& #39;s
1B) "typewriter" could refer to a TeleTypewriter (TTY), which were used as terminals for time-sharing computing systems

2A) As evidenced by the word "code" itself, one cannot know ANYTHING about the original source code of a program without being explicitly informed of what it was like--

Punch-cards, for example, are bits directly encoded into paper. There would be no letters at all!

2B) Even knowing what programming language & compiler were used, low-level langs will allow you to simply manipulate the data for characters directly,
e.g. Uppercase ASCII & #39;C& #39; is 0x43 in hex

We cannot reason about the initial source based solely upon the final result.

These points do not even attempt to critically examine the original claim. They are pure independent facts, that anyone sufficiently familiar with technology can attest to, that invalidate your supposed basis of attack

And that& #39;s why this thread misses the mark;

The point & value of Critical Thinking isnt to determine absolute truth, it& #39;s to determine *relative* truth:

Could MK be so-named b/c it was programmed on a "mechanical typewriter" with a broken & #39;C& #39; key? YES!

Is that likely to have happened? NO!

You do NOT need to prove something impossible in order to exclude it;
If something does not seem reasonable to you, SET IT ASIDE!
But NEVER EVER THROW IT OUT, NOR "VENTURE" INTO WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW FOR CERTAIN!!!