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History of symbols - a lauchpad

A launchpad by breck to the history of different symbols used on a keyboard (source).

KBD.news
Published January 17, 2021

Hey, it seems there' not much content here.

That's not surprising because kbd.news was a mere link collection for about the first six months.

Another formatting of the old lead may reveal some links:

A launchpad by breck to the history of different symbols used on a keyboard (source).

And here is the original source of this entry for further info.

Published on Sun 17th Jan 2021. Featured in KBD #9 (source).

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