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by tdeck 1895 days ago
I get ASDF, but what is AOEU based on?
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https://www.aoeu.com/

> It resulted from a typo. I was writing a domain registration system for an ISP and, during some debugging, forgot to use the --no-act command line flag and ended up registering aoeu.com for real. Since it was so easy to type, I kept it.

The letters A O E U are the first four characters of the left hand on a Dvorak keyboard, which is the layout I use.

Dvorak