F key

Along with writing music for video games and designing ringtones for the Nokia 8800 phone, Mr. Sakamoto oversaw live streams of his concerts that featured a “remote clap” function, in which online viewers could press their keyboard’s F key to applaud.

"Hold down the F key and you can fly up to take a look at my neighbourhood," Angie explains.

When a longshoreman at a convention in Philadelphia said her nose resembled a ski jump, she socked him, according to F. Key Kidder, a former aide to Ms. Bentley who is working on a biography of her.

Sing of the weird smell the typewriter gave off, like WD-40 and salami, and of the Day-Glo flower decal the last person who’d used it had applied, and of the broken F key, which stuck.

To move the system forward in time, you'd press the F key.