It's a good question --- where are the Twiddler user groups? Here's the kind of thing you can do when you're retired. Sorry if this gets reformatted too badly. Googling Usenet groups for (twiddler & handykey) 1 year at a time at http://groups-beta.google.com produces this graph 1991 0 1992 .........10 1993 .............14 1994 .....6 1995 .1 1996 ....5 1997 ..............15 1998 .......................24 1999 ...........12 2000 .......8 2001 .....6 2002 ...4 2003 ..3 2004 .....6 2005 ..3 Of course a lot of factors go into this graph, e.g. Usenet isn't what it used to be. Compare it with the results for (wearable & computer) (the ordinate is shrunk by 10): 1991 3 1992 .14 1993 .18 1994 ...39 1995 .......79 1996 .........108 1997 ............137 1998 ........................252 1999 ...........................280 2000 ...........................272 2001 ...................201 2002 ..............145 2003 .............138 2004 ..............148 2005 ......74 It seems not unreasonable to normalize. The ratio (twiddler & handykey)/(wearable & computer) looks like this: 1991 0 1992 ....................................../ /..............(.71) 1993 ....................................../ /.....................(.78) 1994 ..............(.15) 1995 .(.01) 1996 ....(.05) 1997 ..........(.11) 1998 .........(.10) 1999 ...(.04) 2000 ..(.03) 2001 ..(.03) 2002 ..(.03) 2003 ..(.03) 2004 ...(.04) 2005 ...(.04) This is a spike of interest quickly decaying to a low residual value with maybe a hint of a slight increase recently. _______________________________________________ Wear-Hard mailing listhttp://www.haven.org/mailman/listinfo/wear-hard
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