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Why the spacebar has no label

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The largest, most frequently aggressively smashed button on your entire desk is utterly devoid of a nameplate just to mock you. Since the days of mechanical typewriters, manufacturers simply figured a giant blank plank of plastic was self-explanatory enough to not require any letters. It remains the only piece of tech interface where we collectively agreed that vast emptiness implies the creation of more emptiness.

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