I made a thread nearly a year ago about the headphones we wear. This is similar in a sense but about something else entirely that is perhaps more interesting. I'm sure you've heard "you can tell a lot about a person by their shoes" before. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you can tell a lot about a person by their keyboard! Isn't there a little truth to that?
Maybe you have a $5 keyboard out of frugality which is certainly sensible. If it works fine there's no serious need to pay more. Or perhaps you have an RGB keyboard and a whole lot of other flashy stuff too, like an LED-laden computer case and lots of other lighting. Do you value aesthetics over functionality? Or even, might you have a mechanical keyboard because you like to look down on filthy membrane keyboard peasants? (I jest.)
I've been using the same keyboard for many years now. Well not literally. I do have to replace it every few years because they do get unclean or the key labels fade, etc. I mostly use my keyboard out of nostalgia which in fairness is a pretty weird reason.
These keyboards were marketed as being ergonomic. I believe that's true but admit that it does look like it would give somebody carpal tunnel syndrome. (I have however heard reports claiming the opposite.) It's the Comfort Curve 2000 and was released by Microsoft in 2003, so that's where the nostalgia came from. I believe my school got these at around the time they were released. We'd grown used to shitty keyboards and yellowing CRT monitors and then, one day, 14-year-old me found a big upgrade to all the hardware with sleek LCD screens (wowee) and these really funky-lookin' keyboards. Immediately I was hooked.
I do type a bit unusually but I'm pretty fast. I don't know whether this keyboard has helped or hindered that skill. Over seven years after finishing school I started buying these keyboards again as a reminder of those times but ended up really enjoying them again. That volume control is so handy. The downside is that since these keyboards are nearly two decades old and stopped manufacturing long ago, they can at times be difficult to get cheap.
So what does your keyboard say about you?![]()