# What's with the spacebar?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-spacebar/193738>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 8, 2003, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-spacebar/193738 "2003-08-08T02:35:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![LudditeAndroid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8baadc/32.png) [@LudditeAndroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LudditeAndroid)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-spacebar/193738/41 "2003-08-10T06:46:32Z")

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> \*Originally posted by xgxlx \*  
> \*\*Look down on your keyboard. Look at all the keys. Now look at the spacebar. It’s not labelled. Why? Even the enter and shift and all those other keys are labelled. Not the spacebar. Why? Is there some reason why it’s not labelled or did they just get lazy and decide not to.
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> On a side note, just for the sake of fairness, I took out a sharpie and wrote “Space Bar” on mine. \*\*

Idon’tknowwhatyou’retalkingabout.

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**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-spacebar/193738/42 "2003-08-10T13:00:51Z")

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racer72, it’s no good when you’re keyboard’s depressed. Have you tried elevating it? You know, flipping those things up so that it doesn’t rest on the desk?

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**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-spacebar/193738/43 "2003-08-10T14:25:57Z")

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> \*Originally posted by TJdude825 \*  
> \*\*Au contraire! Backspace is certainly used more (at least by me)! \*\*

Down must gets a fair amount of use from Lurkers 🙂

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**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-spacebar/193738/44 "2003-08-10T14:27:16Z")

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Maybe they couldn’t decide how to label it - do computer-illiterate people use the term ‘space’? Maybe nothing is less confusing.

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