Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side

Re:Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side by VCFundedGenYer on Sunday September 13, 2026 @02:01PM (#49686745)

Insert and Print Screen are not gone. Every one of my keyboards (with the exception of Macbooks) has Insert.

Meanwhile, Print Screen is very much a staple of Windows and Linux screenshotting.

Reverse Tab is kind of still around, just as Shift Tab and Ctrl Tab.

I don't know what the author was thinking when they wrote that.

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Re:Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side by mb5 on Sunday September 13, 2026 @02:13PM (#49686887)

The keys still exist but the symbols have gone

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Re:Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side by layer8 on Sunday September 13, 2026 @02:38PM (#49687222)

The article states “Insert (now gone) and Delete (still with us)”. Since the Delete symbol pictured is long gone, it seems reasonable to conclude that the author meant the keys here, not the symbols.

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Re:Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side by Mulderns on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:16PM (#49701434)

As far as I know, having used a mac for some years, the mac keyboard (and OS?) doesn't have an insert key. Makes editing ascii-diagrams and tables tedious.

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