Ever wanted to be able to type upside down? I bet
you've never even thought about it. I hadn't either until I saw an upside
down discussion on a newsgroup. So what is upside down typing? Here's an
example:
:al&wexa ue s.ajaH ¿bu!&h+ umop ap!s&n s! +eym oS '&nojbsmau e uo uo!ssncs!p umop ap!s&n ue mes I l!+un jay+!a +.upey I '+! +noqe +ybnoy+ ua^a ja^au a^.noh +aq I ¿umop ap!s&n a&h+ o+ alqe aq o+ pa+uem ja^3
So what does that mean? Well, if you print out this
page and hold it upside down, You'll find that the above text is simply
the previous paragraph typed upside down. Well, sort of. It takes a bit
of work to read upside down typing, but of course it takes even more work
to type it. I wrote the following applet you can use to painlessly translate
into upside down typing or vise versa. Copy the above text and paste it
into the NQAS field and click the "NQAS to English" button and you'll see
it in its original form.
Too much trouble to print out this page just to read upside down? Paste the translated text into the "English" box and click "English to NQAS" to see it upside down! Well, sort of.
Darius Bacon has written some "palindromic" poetry that's not only the same backwards as forwards but also upside down!
So what does "NQAS" stand for? I haven't a clue. If you find out please let me know.