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Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side

163 points · 89 comments · zdw

behnamoh · 1789918949 · focus · HN ↗
I wonder why people stopped adding symbols to ASCII. The number row on Macs is just these characters:
```
    ~!@#$%^&amp;*()_+
```
And every programming language uses a subset of these. But why these symbols? Why didn't people add more symbols to the keyboard?
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