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Relatedly, I made a little interactive vis a while back about the symbols on our keyboards: https://breckyunits.com/files/keyboard/ https://breckyunits.com/file
by breck 6y ago
Relatedly, I made a little interactive vis a while back about the symbols on our keyboards: https://breckyunits.com/files/keyboard/ https://breckyunits.com/files/keyboard/
It's amazing to me that there are distinct, concentric rings on all of our keyboards that are very analogous to the concentric rings you find in trees revealing their age. The oldest keys are in the center, newest are along the edge. (I count about 5 rings: https://breckyunits.com/how-old-are-these-keys.html https://breckyunits.com/how-old-are-these-keys.html)
(Maybe someone could take this idea and make a nice tree ring visual of the keyboard?)
- GuB-42 6y agoYou can even extend the outer rings with keyboard that add stuff. For example, modern gaming keyboard often have macro keys on the side and multimedia buttons on top. And there is also this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard The macro and over-the-top keys of the space cadet keyboard are essentially just an extension of the other "computer" key but media keys can be considered an extra ring, one that goes beyond text.