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Shift Happens is a beautifully designed history of how keyboards got this way

16 points| deepthaw | 2 years ago |arstechnica.com

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Ajay-p|2 years ago

James Densmore invented the Shift key. The early typewriters were in all capital letters, then two sets of keys - one for lower case and one set for uppercase. Densmore was the first to put two letters on a single type slug, and added a key to "shift" the carriage so as to align with either the uppercase or lowercase letter.