Someone asked me a simple keyboard layout question, and I went a bit deep on it. (But also, you could argue, not nearly deep enough.) Thread: https://twitter.com/ElCoopacabra/status/1037406641774256129 …
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You only have an Alt Gr key on computer keyboards, it was only introduced by IBM in 1985. Before Alt Gr, a couple of symbols were missing from German keyboards to make space for äöü and ß.
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[{}]@| were missing, for example, and there wasn't a backslash either. That became a Problem when MS-DOS started using \ for subdirectories, of course...
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