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dhosek 7 days ago

It’s more the old TTY layout which differs somewhat from the modified typewriter layout that’s become standard for computer keyboards. The old Apple ][ keyboard had 1–9 corresponding to the next row in ASCII, shift-0 was @, I think other characters were ±16 based on shift. Early ASCII implementations were often slightly inconsistent but codings were often based on keyboard layouts.

userbinator 7 days ago | parent [-]

The order of the punctuation descends from the very first typewriters, in the late 19th century:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Remington_2_typewriter_ke...