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. Typical layouts of 1880s and 1890s typewritersEarly typewriters experimented with two, or even three separate shifts, and while eventually we standardized on just one Shift key (cloned ...
