Article 7718H The keystroke that hid your game behind a fake spreadsheet

The keystroke that hid your game behind a fake spreadsheet

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Ellsworth Toohey
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Before multitasking made it easy to control-tab away from a goofing-off page (and when people work in offices with other people), PC games shipped with a boss key - a single keystroke that instantly hid the game and threw up a screen meant to look like real work. - Read the rest

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