Talk:Any key

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Between the edit by DavidWBrooks and myself, I can see where there could be a difference between the entry written from two perspectives.

For example, noting that the "any key" is not a real key on the keyboard would be of real use to a new computer user looking it up in the Wikipedia. The fact that it is also a joke deserves it's own section, perhaps.

I think the article should be expanded to include both general information for someone just looking it up, and a separate section about how it has come to become a joke referring to newbies. In my opinion, the goal of the article should be to elucidate rather than make fun of a user who may have honestly needed a reference article.

Any dicussion on the topic would be welcome.

-Abqwildcat 20:36, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)

How often does the "any key" phrase come up these days? Not very often, because most OSes use mice and it's almost always something like "click OK to continue" or "click anywhere". So I think this is a moot point.12.103.251.203 20:13, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

OK, I merged based on this discussion. I'm new here, so the result might deserve a second look. Jimsg 14:43, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

In the Amiga Tetris clone Defektris, the first screen of the playing instructions says "Press just about anything for the next page". I became interested in this and tried it out. The result is that there is only one thing you can press that does not show you the next page: the right mouse button. Every key on the keyboard (even the modifier keys), the left mouse button, and the joystick fire button all work. JIP | Talk 13:19, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Yep

I did a little bit of cleanup of this article and sort of improved the prose. Any ideas on how to expand? — Ilyanep (Talk) 22:34, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Typically confused"?

The text says, "New users were typically confused by this reference to the 'Any Key' and began wondering where the 'any' key was on the keyboard. The confusion is much less common now as some computer help systems have added explicit explanations of this problem." It makes it sound like almost everyone was confused by "press any key", when in reality, I would guess that the vast majority of people were not confused by this. Once you have a million computer users there might have been a few thousand who were confused (which is enough to justify a help system entry) but it shouldn't be so overstated. Wonderstruck 04:57, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Usage on Samsung remotes

Some Samsung DVD remotes have a key called Any Key which opens a menu.