ID PLEASE COMPANY

We have all been there. You are in the middle of typing a crucial email, filling out an urgent online form, or crafting the password to end all passwords, only to look up at your monitor and realize a terrifying truth: EVERYTHING IS IN CAPITALS. Panic sets in. Did you accidentally shout at your boss? Did you fail your login attempt? Is your keyboard haunted? Usually, the culprit is the most misunderstood and deceptively simple key on your entire board—the Caps Lock. But before you throw your computer out the window, it is time to take a breath, investigate the situation, and issue a mandatory ID PLEASE to the Caps Lock key itself to figure out why it is acting up and how you can take back control of your typing. To properly address this perennial digital annoyance, we first need to issue an ID PLEASE CAPS investigation into why this key exists in the first place. Originating from the heavy mechanical shift-lock mechanisms of traditional typewriter days, the modern Caps Lock key was des...