This copy-and-paste keyboard for developers started out as a joke. Now it’s real – and sold out

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Liam Tung

| September 30, 2021

| Topic: Developer

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Developer Q&A site Stack Overflow marked April Fools’ Day last year by making a fake announcement about the launch of a three-key “copy/paste” keyboard. It was an insider joke, a nod to the common practice of developers who copy and paste code, shared by other users on the site, for use in their own projects. 

The keyboard, which was designed simply to copy code and paste it elsewhere, was called The Key and billed with a clever twist on Picasso’s famous comment that “Good artists copy, but great artists steal”.

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Liam Tung

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Liam Tung

| September 30, 2021

| Topic: Developer