For no particular reason, I decided to spend a couple hours of my day cleaning my keyboard, inside and out. I actually found the process quite enlightening.Editor’s note: I’m taking the week off this week from MidRange. While I’m out, I’m going to share some of my favorite issues from the past nine months. These pieces will run as they did when they were written, with no changes.

It turns out the keyboard I used when I was 11 years old is now seen as desirable among keyboard enthusiasts. Because I miss the old keyboard, I’m now part of the fad.

The famed mechanical keyboard switch manufacturer Cherry has been around since the 1950s—but it's only been defined by keyboard switches in the past decade.