Comments by "Kasumi Rina" (@KasumiRINA) on "Why is @ on your computer keyboard?" video.

  1. multiplication in computing is kinda ridiculous, as × is too confusing with x or Cyrillic х so obviously not used for that, and dot ⋅ is too small and nowhere to be found on kb... unlike / for division which makes sense as it's also a fraction symbol & you don't NEED ÷, there's no standardization as using asterisk for multiplying isn't ideal with how often it is used, say, in search engines or site code, i.e. if I input * twice here it will make the word look like this
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  2. it's равлик (snail) in Ukrainian, but also called собачка (doggy) casually
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  3. In Cyrillic layout, it's " brackets above 2, not @. Of course the key was not going anywhere as it's uppercase number instead of separate button like Windows key that doesn't exist on older keyboards. So yeah it wasn't going anywhere at most the default layout would have changed to a more used diactric mark or something.
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  4. In Cyrillic layouts there's 30+ letters so no space for ; : ' " [ { } ] and even ? is on the top row, similar to typewriter.
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