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3 unusual facts about Ctrl


CTRL

CNTRL, protein that in humans is encoded by the CNTRL gene

CNTRL: Beyond EDM, a North American educational initiative, centered around electronic dance music

Control key, an input button present on most computer keyboards


.sv

sv is used instead of .se when typing ctrl+return for appending the suffix.

Artix Entertainment

Other special events include wars, in which players collaborate to defeat enough "waves" of monsters to win the war over several days, and live events with guest stars like Voltaire, One-Eyed Doll, George Lowe, Paul and Storm, Jonathan Coulton, the cast of Ctrl+Alt+Del, Ayi Jihu, ArcAttack, They Might Be Giants, and Michael Sinterniklaas as the voice of Deady.

Boss key

The first few games in Sierra's Leisure Suit Larry series included a boss key in the pulldown menus (shortcut usually Ctrl+B).

Fishcam

Netscape has a web feed of their fishtank, and for some time had an easter egg hidden in Netscape Communicator that would bring that page up when a user pressed CTRL + ALT + F. The Netscape Fishcam was the 2nd live camera to start broadcasting on the Web.

Inverted question and exclamation marks

In Microsoft Word, the inverted question and exclamation marks can be typed by holding down the Ctrl, Alt, and shift keys while typing a normal question or exclamation mark, or by typing either mark at the start of the sentence whilst in the Spanish language mode.

Nestea

Nestea was featured in the NBC's Ctrl webseries as the basis for Stuart's magic keyboard.

Phonethics

In 2005, the company produced ‘Ctrl + Alt + Del’, a short film in English with actors Rahul Bose and Shernaz Patel in lead roles.

WordPerfect

WordPerfect for DOS was notable for its Alt-keystroke macro facility, which was expanded with the addition of macro libraries in WP 5.0 that also allowed for Ctrl-keystroke macros, and remapping of any key as a macro.


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