enter typing

This is a bit delayed, but I’ve been learning about the Enter key (sometimes called the Return key).

I never really thought about the Enter key that much, until it stopped working. At first, I thought, “Well, the Enter key is really important, I won’t be able to do much,” but it turned out that you can do a lot, since most things that you use the Enter key for can also be accomplished by clicking something with the mouse.

So then I thought, “Well, in the modern world of GUI computing, you don’t actually need the Enter key at all,” but then it turned out that you need it for one thing that can’t be accomplished any other way, which is to make paragraphs. Which was its original purpose, of course, inherited from carriage return key on the typewriter.

So, I had to come up with a replacement keyboard (with a working Enter key, though in this case it’s a Return key), because the alternative was to write an entertaining blog post (all in one paragraph, of course) about how I couldn’t make paragraphs. And it had to be a USB keyboard, because this computer doesn’t have a PS/2 port.

And obviously I succeeded, because look at all these paragraphs I’m using here.

Anyway, there’s one more part of The College Murder Case, and it’s posted here. The story started here.

We’ll get to the college soon, I promise.