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Today? It does not print a thing. Instead, it does something far more magical:
It’s time to stop ignoring the PrtSc button. Because once you understand its superpowers, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it. Let’s clear this up immediately. In 1981, on the original IBM PC, yes—pressing Print Screen would literally send the contents of your text-based screen to a dot-matrix printer. It was the 80s. We printed everything.
P.S. Mac users, I know you’re feeling left out. You have Cmd+Shift+4 . It’s cute. But you don’t have a dedicated button with the word "SCREEN" on it. So there.
For years, you’ve ignored it. Maybe you thought it was a relic from the DOS era. Maybe you assumed it was a prank button that prints your entire hard drive to paper.
Today? It does not print a thing. Instead, it does something far more magical:
It’s time to stop ignoring the PrtSc button. Because once you understand its superpowers, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it. Let’s clear this up immediately. In 1981, on the original IBM PC, yes—pressing Print Screen would literally send the contents of your text-based screen to a dot-matrix printer. It was the 80s. We printed everything.
P.S. Mac users, I know you’re feeling left out. You have Cmd+Shift+4 . It’s cute. But you don’t have a dedicated button with the word "SCREEN" on it. So there.
For years, you’ve ignored it. Maybe you thought it was a relic from the DOS era. Maybe you assumed it was a prank button that prints your entire hard drive to paper.
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