He’d had a revelation whereas wandering via the exhibit: Each key on a keyboard has its personal tales. And these tales usually are not nearly computing know-how, but in addition concerning the individuals who designed, used, or in any other case interacted with the keyboards.
Take the backspace key, he explains: “I like that [the concept of] backspace was originally just that—a space going backward. We are used to it erasing now, but for a hundred years, erasing was its own incredibly complex endeavor. You needed to master a Comet eraser, or Wite-Out, or strange correction tapes, and possibly all of the above … or give up and start from scratch whenever you made a typo.”
