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Keyboards: The modifiers vs. the keepers
The modifiers vs. the keepers.
Throughout the history of keyboards, a battle has been fought by two opposing camps.On one side, there were keyboards with the modifier keys – the Shifts, the Controls, the Commands. They appeared in QWERTY’s suburbia the moment typewriters needed uppercase and lowercase characters, and never went away.
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