I wonder how far back that goes. Typewriter days? Pre-GUI?
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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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And since they couldn’t keep ? atop comma any more – one is “heavy,” the other one lighter – so they had to move ? somewhere else. The nearby slash was still in heavy use, but what was above it? A vulgar fraction, already a bit less important by that time. So a swap was made.
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