Backspace
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"ASCII 8" redirects here. For the eight-bit or larger encodings, see Extended ASCII.
Not to be confused with Delete key.
Backspace (ā Backspace) is the keyboard key that in typewriters originally pushed the carriage one position backwards, and in modern computer systems typically moves the display cursor one position backwards,[note 1] deletes the character at that position, and shifts back any text after[note 2] that position by one character.