I wonder how far back that goes. Typewriter days? Pre-GUI?
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For example, an electric typewriter is incredibly spry and some smaller symbols (dot, comma, dash, etc.) need to be impressed with less force… because if they met the paper with the same velocity as M or W, they’d simply puncture the paper.
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To simplify the mechanism, the engineers decided to have “low velocity” symbols share the same key, so they could be slower whether the key was shifted or unshifted. And so, they moved things around; they put ' and " together on one key, and _ with - together on another.pic.twitter.com/IL5Lud5MQc
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