Three hundred words you can spell on a calculator [pdf] (opens in new tab)

Cool, in Czech "haha" (the regular one) and "hihi" (the more giggly/playful/naughty one) have the same relationship. I wonder what other languages use it.

I took a few semesters of Dutch in college, and pretty much everyone else in the (admittedly quite small) classes either had Dutch ancestry or was an art history graduate student auditing so that they could learn to read primary sources about Dutch painters as part of their research. Early on in my first semester, we learned how to explain in Dutch why we decided to take Dutch, and I had the distinction of being the only one taking the class "voor de lol", which even today still makes me chuckle due to how similar it is to the common English meme phrasing.

It may have been typed in the 1970s.

When I was growing up, my family used my mom's college typewriter, which did not have numeral 1 or 0 keys. Instead, you typed a lowercase L and an uppercase O. It was one of the typing habits, and you didn't even think about it.

When she took a computer programming class, around 1979, the terminals had all of the numerals, and of course she was constantly mixing them up, causing errors. A year later she became the teacher of that class, and completed the requirements for a CS major by staying a semester ahead of her students for a few years. She always reminded her students: "Computers are stupid. They will do exactly what you tell them."

The typewriter that I got for college had all of the numbers. Of course I used it for about a year before ditching it for a word processor. But everybody kept an old typewriter around for many years after that, because you might need one for filling out a form.

Theres also a lot of 8's on the left instead of B...

Happy that someone else also spotted this.

I remember SHELLOIL (71077345) was the longest word that would fit in my calculator... except I guess it is TWO words.

hillbillies never would have fit

"L7" is hippie sign language for "square".

In discussions where HN has truncated/mangled a title, people have indicated that you can edit your submission after the fact to fix it. I don't know whether that's accurate, or whether there's a time limit.

you need to put your phone upside down for the link to open

Or a calculator with two displays. One for you, and one for the customer. I think many cash registers already have something like this. Segment displays are cheap, so it makes sense.

Surprised the list is missing the silly school joke: 55378008

It is and its in the dictionary

Adjective boobless

1. (slang) Without boobs (breasts). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boobless

Which also includes an audio pronunciation, which should be invaluable to all teenage boys.