Started by Arjun Pillai (@latentspace) ·
why the enter key is a different shape in the UK
4 sources · 17 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “iso vs ansi keyboard”
- Ended at
- British and American keyboards
The Trail
- “iso vs ansi keyboard” (google.com)
- ISO/IEC 9995 (en.wikipedia.org)
- Keyboard layout (en.wikipedia.org)
- British and American keyboards (en.wikipedia.org)
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