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Originally of course there was only one mouse button, and you would ctrl-click for the context menu


Originally, yes, there was one¹. But three were used quite soon after.²

¹ https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/input-output/14/3...

² https://youtu.be/yJDv-zdhzMY


Two button mice were for sure the standard on non-Macintosh PCs well before Windows was in popular usage.


And 3 wasn't rare, I think.




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