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Comment by irishcoffee

11 hours ago

Carriage return and line feed go way back. Tty stands for teletype. A computer was the job description of a person.

It’s turtles all the way down.

What lower turtles were there? My impression was that teletypes were the first proper keyboard-based interfaces.

  • The telegraph was keybased - only one key so I can't call it a keyboard, but in other ways it is what you are asking about.