It is generally placed at the top left corner of the keyboard, which placement dates at least to the original IBM PC keyboard, though the key itself dates to teletypewriters.
Symbol
The keyboard symbol for the ESC key (which may be used when the usual Latin lettering "Esc" is not preferred for labelling the key) is standardized in ISO/IEC 9995-7 as symbol 29, and in ISO 7000 "Graphical symbols for use on equipment" as symbol ISO-7000-2029. This symbol is encoded in Unicode as U+238B broken circle with northwest arrow (⎋).
Origins
The Escape key's creation is credited to Bob Bemer, a computer programmer who worked for IBM. He created the Escape key in 1960 to allow programmers working with diverse machines to switch from one type of code to another.
It was sixteen years ago, outside an aging movie show I was found not knowing where I was that night Not a thing did I possess but an old blue gingham dress And a faded photograph in black and white Now my memories are quite clear, even if I still can hear All the shrinks who said some trauma was to blame Light another cigarette, breathe in deep, try to forget That it's a photograph of Dinah and that Alice is my name "Chorus" Save me, save me, I've lost my memory I'm outside the world looking in Save me, save me, I'm lost in the memory And I'd swear I'm a girl that's never been Now it's all the life I knew, except I know it can't be true I'm not her -- there's no such thing as Wonderland Hold a steady job somehow, three months clean and sober now Oh, the ways I tried to get back there again Try to move on, don't be sad -- so I placed a personal ad I asked, why is a raven like a writing desk? And on the phone, out of the past, so glad he's found me now at last And I'm afraid to go and meet him but I know my answer's yes Just another city loner wearing sunglasses at night Leather jacket, purple turtleneck and blue jeans worn too tight Just a rummie by the jukebox in a casual curious pose But I don't know how he knows the things he knows Well he sits down with a grin, "Why little Alice, where've you been? Not so little, not so Alice, now, are you?" As he sips my untouched drink, I say "I can't be who I think" He says "You are, and you're not, and I am too. Are we figments of our gin? Are we long-lost orphaned kin? Or the mad descendants of a writer's pen? No one's sane behind their mask. Ask what you really want to ask." And I close my eyes and whisper, "Can you take me back again?" "Darling Alice, so bereft, there's no back -- you never left. All the rhymes are still there waiting to be sung." And he holds up in the air a little picture paper square Slips between my lips and underneath my tongue. "Shall I tell you now, Miss Little, what's the answer to the riddle Of the raven that you used to send your call?" He takes the glasses off to see, yellow cat's eyes turn to me, and says, "It's nothing like a writing desk at all." Save me, save me, I've lost my memory I'm outside the world looking in Save me, save me, I'm lost in the memory And I'd swear I'm a girl that's never been And he faded, leaving nothing but a grin.
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A key aspect of Exley’s escape included that he was able to manipulate Corrections staff into manually downgrading his security classification, but the Herald’s queries into similar incidents revealed he was an extreme case. .
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Keito was a third grader in junior high school when he started drawing illustrations with colored pencils as an escape mechanism from his problems at home.
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