Missing Caps Lock?

Most of you probably noticed that the new Google netbooks will be abandoning the good ol' capslock key. Yahoo! News has an article about it. Those are my thoughts on it.

History

Back in the days there were capslock keys on typewriters just to activate the second function of the pressed key (generally Capitals and secondary Characters). However with the rise of the computer, the capslock (or shift-lock) did just "...[ground] all of the keyscan lines as though the shift key were being pressed." (Wikipedia).

On modern keyboards, the capslock basically serves to write uppercase text, without activating the secondary function of another key. This means that you won't get a : with activated capslock by pressing the dot.

Modern use

Actually I think you rarely see (all-)uppercase text nowadays. When you do, it's rather annoying. Uppercase text IS hard to read, so barely used in Magazines, Blogs and other such formats.

Actually, where you nearly always find it is in chats and in comments. People SCREAMING their text do sound familiar to you, right? Annoying, weak, you want to kill 'em.

My perspective

Let's cut this short. I don't need a capslock key (same as a special DEL key). Only usecase I could think of right now is writing SQL Syntax. However I guess we could simply workaround that on a software side. Here on my MacBook I'm getting DEL by pressing FN+Backspace - I would really welcome that for the capslock (FN+Shift anyone?).

Haha, and dumb people will stop SCREAMING on the internet. Hopefully.

Seriously, abandon capslock altogether. We do not need it anymore, in my opinion.

What do you think?