Backspace

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Backspace (← Backspace, ⌫) is the keyboard key that in typewriters originally pushed the carriage one position backwards. In modern computer systems, it typically moves the display cursor one position backwards, deletes the character at that position, and shifts back any text after that position by one character.

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