IRS issues ITINs to individuals who are required to have a U.S. taxpayer identification number but who do not have, and are not eligible to obtain a Social Security Number (SSN) from the Social Security Administration (SSA).
shorthand in which alphabetic letters or types are used to produce shortened forms of words or groups of words. Origin of stenotypy. 1890-1895.
Joshua Lifton says you can learn to type at 225 words per minute with his Stenosaurus, an open source stenography keyboard that has a not-there-yet website with nothing but the words, Stenography is about to evolve, on it as of this writing.