Get the latest tech news
The day Return became Enter (2023)
A deep dive into the convoluted and fascinating story of one of the most important keys on the keyboard
And after an early era of cables that needed to be reconnected, dials that had to be turned, and other peculiar user interfaces, computers too realized that QWERTY keyboards were a uniquely great device for fast human-machine communication. Later, hyper-popular IBM terminals, created a setup still inhabiting motor memories of computer operators from that era: Enter to the right of the spacebar, and Reset for system recovery (such as after trying to type in a protected field) on the left. The bottom keyboard comes from Canada, with the sometimes slightly, sometimes widely different symbols for Return, Enter, Ctrl, AltGr, Help, Backspace, Home, End, PgUp, and PgDn, mandated by the government at the time.
Or read this on Hacker News
