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The escape button is used to get out of some programs and to get out of games quickly and effectively. Sometimes if you press the escape button in a game, it will direct you to the main menu, and not out of the game. The escape button is labelled with a "Esc" and is located at the top left-hand corner of your computer keyboard. Hope I helped! ^^
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 8y agoEsc was originally intended when ASCII was designed as a "prefix" character identifying the beginning of special purpose multicharacter teletype codes.
When smart CRT computer terminals were introduced each manufacturer defined their own arbitrary set of Esc-commands that controlled the various features of the smart terminal (e.g. random cursor positioning, highlighting text, underlining lext, flashing text, defining fields, switching between standard 80 by 24 character format and custom formats). Ultimately the Esc-commands defined by DEC for their VT100 and VT220 computer terminals dominated and became the industry de facto standard.
Most modern OSs however use the Esc key for the opposite purpose, as a single key to terminate something currently going on and return to what was being done before.
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∙ 13y agoUp in the left hand corner there is an ESC key. Thts escape
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∙ 13y agoMainly to get off of full screen modes, as noted when you go into full screen mode.
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∙ 8y agoIt will help you leave the site you are on and minimize a window.
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∙ 9y agoto exit out of full screen on a computer.
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