On April 25th, 2000, mIRC user Jamyn explained how the troll works (shown below). It is very effective here due to two major limitations of the program: This trolling technique most likely originated on mIRC, a multiple internet relay chat program popular in the late 90s and early 00s. You can use it to access alternative characters, and opening apps and settings also become much easier. It means that If you're changing languages, not only does the letter of the hotkey change, but even if we decided that, fine, Q means quit for everybody, even in France, you still have to find the letter 'Q.' The Alt key on a Mac helps make sure that your experience is smoother while using your computer. He said: If you're in France, the letter Q is not in the upper left hand corner of the keyboard. Windows historian Raymond Chen says that the reason developers used Alt F4 instead of Alt Q for quitting applications was because 'Quit' is a word that's specific to English.

Microsoft released the first version of Windows on November 20th, 1985. Keyboard function keys date back to the 1960s but did not necessarily have standardized usages until later.