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Nope, never did! Learned something new this morning 
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Something we oldies started with; in my case via paper tape which was used as the main input on our systems. Take a look at the first picture on row 2 (LEO III/6 and LEO III/7 pics), the paper tape reader is in the foreground. That was the first system I worked on.
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My very first programming class (circa 1976) used a paper punch terminal to write programs in BASIC -- apparently I never learned the paper tape encoding. By the next semester I advanced to 80 column punch cards and UNIVAC assembler.
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We moved from the old LEO system to a Univac 1108 in 1968, and I started learning Assembler when I switched from operating to programming shortly thereafter.
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No I haven't Richard, it was punch cards when I first started
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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We had cards and paper tape when I started. Although paper tape was the primary input medium. There was a room full of young girls, just outside the computer room, who spent all day punching billing information onto TTY tape, which we operators then processed.
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The TTY in the title is a hint... The 'wordle-blocks' are fit the 5 bit nature of the Baudot-code used there...
“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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yes, but let's not make a habit of it, eh?
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Sure, part of its being brilliant is of course that it is original AND a one-shot...
Hopefully next CCC is not in Morse 
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The semicolon key[^]
This keyboard isn't too old - a few years - but the A, S, Shift, and CTRL keys are worn smooth, you can no longer see the labels. E is fading fast, and you could brush your hair in the reflection from the space bar ... but the semicolon looks pristine!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I just bought a new keyboard!
So I am back to being a junior developer!  
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Are you implying that ALL the keys should have lettering on them? I vaguely remember that...
My Dell laptop[^] was 3 years old last month...
Stops anybody from borrowing it!
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I got a replacement keyboard for an hp Pavilion DV6 a couple of years ago. It's about halfway there...
The real problem with the DV6 keyboard is that it has an extra column of keys down the left side, which is surprisingly offputting.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Nobody has ever claimed that. I had one of these some years ago:
Das Keyboard[^]
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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The epitome in localization! With customizable driver and paste-on symbols so you can put the ÅÄÖ where you want them.
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With the second advantage being that nobody else than you can use it.
Did you switch back to a keyboard with labeled keys then ?
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I started using laptops with built in keyboards. Have so far not seen any laptop with unlabeled keys... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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It is nothing a gentle rub of white spirit could not handle
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Cut-and-paste coder, I see. :-p
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More cut than paste, it would seem!
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I seem to wear out the spacebar first.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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It's the backspace key for me! 
Actually, the laptop I recently replaced was a little over 5 years old, and its ZXCV keys no longer worked consistently.
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For Visual Studio based developers, the F5, F10, F11 keys also.
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