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Earlier computer keyboards were based either on teletype machines or keypunches. By the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, all computers used electronic keyboards. The layout of the computer keyboard still owes its origin to the inventor of the first typewriter, Christopher Latham Sholes. He also invented the QWERTY layout, and laid out the keys in such a way that common two-letter combinations were placed on opposite sides of the keyboard so that his mechanical keyboard would not jam.
Earlier computer keyboards were based either on teletype machines or keypunches. By the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, all computers used electronic keyboards. The layout of the computer keyboard still owes its origin to the inventor of the first typewriter, Christopher Latham Sholes. He also invented the QWERTY layout, and laid out the keys in such a way that common two-letter combinations were placed on opposite sides of the keyboard so that his mechanical keyboard would not jam.| . | full stop (International) | period (American) | |
| , | comma | |
| ? | question mark | |
| ! | exclamation mark | |
| : | colon | |
| ; | semicolon | |
| - | hyphen | |
| — | dash | |
| ( and ) | parentheses | |
| [ and ] | brackets | |
| { and } | braces or curly brackets | |
| ' | apostrophe or single quotation mark | |
| " and " | quotation marks | |
| / | virgule or slash | |
| ¶ | the pilcrow or paragraph sign | |
| § | the section sign | |
| & | the ampersand | |
| @ | the at-sign or ampersat | |
| ^ | caret | |
| # | the number sign (hash) | |
| <> | angle brackets | |
| ¦ | broken bar | |
| | | bar (or pipe for the unix geeks) | |
| \ | backslash | |
| * | asterisk (or splat for the geeks) |
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