Before the age of the internet, you likely never noticed some of the keyboard symbols that you now use all the time. Most of us still don’t know the actual history behind these now-ubiquitous symbols, ...

You can use your computer's keyboard to quickly enter currency signs, foreign accents, trademarks and other symbols your business uses frequently. To access these symbols, you must use Windows' ...

Phil Edwards was a senior producer for the Vox video team. The keyboard is filled with unusual symbols like @, #, and &, which we use without stopping to think how these arbitrary symbols got such ...

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From 1993 until 2000, Prince famously dropped his name after a dispute with Warner Bros. and began referring to himself using a symbol. It became known as the "Love Symbol" and was created by blending ...

They are road signs for your daily rituals – the instantly recognized symbols and icons you press, click and ogle countless times a day when you interact with your computer. But how much do you know ...

Podcasters and sound engineers often put together what’s called a “soundboard,” which is a collection of frequently used short audio clips that they can trigger with a click. Sometimes these are used ...

Q I’m beginning to handle international business, which means I need to be able to use foreign currency symbols in both Word and Excel. How do I create a shortcut for various symbols? In Excel, it’s a ...

It’s been quite a while since the INR or Indian Rupee Currency Symbol was introduced. Earlier, some ad-hoc solutions were released by a third party—for example, a Rupee symbol Font was released, which ...