You know how you can date a global or map by looking for specific countries?
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You know how you can date a global or map by looking for specific countries?
Well, fun fact: If you have a keyboard that's like 15-25 years old, you can tell if it's from the Clinton Era or the George W. Bush era by looking for this one sticker:
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I don't have the exact dates on hand (because I heard this second hand), but during the Clinton Administration the law changed so that workers could claim Workers Comp if they developed RSI/Carpal Tunnel from typing on Bad Keyboards their job gave them.
So employers started buying keyboards which had this warning about RSI on the back, with a label on the front. I believe the law also required employers to buy ergonomic keyboards for workers with RSI. -
and then the George W. Bush administration reversed this situation.
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So keyboards only had these labels on them for a brief few years, around 1999-2002
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@foone Also Windows 98 (I think?) had these three new power/sleep keys, so it was the darkest timeline.
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@gistofspirit @mwichary nah. Usb supports it as well. Both let you send arbitrary scancodes, so support for "multimedia" keys (which includes those) was equal
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@gistofspirit @mwichary oh I see what you mean, I thought you just meant if the devices could support the buttons at all.
I think some motherboards support a sort of low-level keyboard support even when off that supports that? But I'm not sure.