[tivert]

This is kind of neat from a nostalgia standpoint, but I wish there was some kind of "Encyclopedia of Operating System UI," that broke UI features and paradigms down into their smallest units, described their mechanics, and tracked them across different operating systems and versions. Probably with a particular emphasis on defunct systems when there was a lot more diversity and innovation (e.g. the Canon Cat Leap Keys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_TlE_U_X3c)

[thfuran]

Well, now I want a new keyboard.

[tivert]

> Well, now I want a new keyboard.

Good luck. I've kinda wished there was some company that would sell custom keyboard where you could have switches in new places. But unfortunately, "custom keyboard" almost always means custom keycaps, and keyboard fads seem to mainly be about having fewer and fewer keys.

Pretty soon, I'm sure we'll see minimalist keyboards with only one key where you have to type in scan-codes manually in binary, Morse-code style.

I've dreamed about having a custom keyboard with two leap keys (but spaces on the outer ends of the spacebar instead of the middle) and a couple custom shift keys.