I grew up in an era when the only keyboards available were hulking slabs of plastic with more keys than you could ever need. They had massive number pads, a whole area for your arrows, and even a “navigation cluster” for keys a Quake-addicted kid in the nineties would never use.

Back then, your keyboard ate up all your desk space, and we liked it. We just didn’t know better. Thankfully, we’ve moved on from those dark days. The rise of laptops forced designers to come up with ways to fit as much of the functionality of the keyboard in a smaller form factor, and so we saw the numpad disappear and the “function” key come to prominence.