Yeah, it dates back to 1949. Shortly after the sino-japanese war on the 1st of October 1949 the CCP announced the creation of the People’s republic of china.
The Japanese were all like, LOL, that’s our empire why do you say it’s a country and it became tradition to make outlandish jokes on the 1st of October. So to this day when the PRC celebrate their national day Japan celebrate jokes day (冗談の日).
Is Oct 1 the Japanese equivalent of April Fools Day or something?
Google Japan makes a neat-but-useless keyboard every October 1st.
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/07/hats-off-to-another-weird-keyboard-from-google-japan/
There’s a super long one, one that’s a cup, one that’s a hat, and one that’s a spoon.
Probably more that I’m not remembering.
Yeah, I read that it’s a yearly thing. My question though, is why Oct 1?
10/1 to celebrate the 101 key keyboard apparently? That’s what the linked article mentioned.
It’s in the article I linked.
Wtf, I only saw the long one before. Thanks for sharing!
Edit: omg, the video! They even show the long keyboard in on scene. And an anime hommage with a guy running with a toast in his mouth. Hilarious.
Yeah, it dates back to 1949. Shortly after the sino-japanese war on the 1st of October 1949 the CCP announced the creation of the People’s republic of china.
The Japanese were all like, LOL, that’s our empire why do you say it’s a country and it became tradition to make outlandish jokes on the 1st of October. So to this day when the PRC celebrate their national day Japan celebrate jokes day (冗談の日).
Also I made that shit up.