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In the days of typewriters, the capital letters were in a lower row on the type bar than the lowercase letters. When you needed a capital letter, you pressed the "Shift" key, which raised the whole type bar assembly ("shifted" it upwards) to get a capital letter. The term has hung on into the computer age.
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Michael Smith
The Shift key's name originated from the typewriter, where one had to press and hold the button to shift up the case stamp to change to capital letters; the shift key was first used in the Remington No. 2 Type-Writer of 1878; the No. 1 model was capital-only.
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