October 22 has been celebrated as International Caps Lock Day since the year 2000. It was so much fun that a second Cap Locks Day was later launched on June 28 in honor of pitchman Billy Mays. The pseudo-holiday is to celebrate the confounding habit some people have (or had) of typing all their internet messages in all capitals. We still don't know why people did that, but trying to get them to stop was difficult, if not impossible. In text, the use of all-caps comes across as shouting at the recipient, or even worse, the audience.
One method of changing habits is to get rid of the caps lock key altogether, which Google did in 2020, when they took the caps lock keys off their Chromebooks and replaced it with a search key. You can still turn on all-caps, but it requires the use of several keys. The habit of typing in all caps is dying out, though, and younger generations who text on smart phones rarely use capitals at all. But we still set aside this day to remember the struggles of the early internet when grandpa somehow found the caps lock key once and could never find it again to turn it off. -via Metafilter
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