[PaulDavisThe1st]

Hmm, at this point I think I might be imagining it ... I'll let you know if I can find it ...

[QuantumNomad_]

Some older Apple keyboards had their backspace button labelled “delete” which to me made it sound like that was the “del” button and not the backspace button.

[Findecanor]

That was the convention on many older computing platforms.

A "Backspace" key on a typewriter did not actually delete: It merely moved the typing position back one space.