Why had someone named the enter key 'return' key?

Question

Why had someone named the enter key 'return' key?

Answer 1

Because it was origonally on the type writer where the return key would make the spool return to it's first position, just like when you pres return, it moves the curser down and to the begining of the next line.

Answer 2

Because in the type writter times, they had a lever that they pulled to go back to the left of the page and down a line, therefore returning.

Answer 3

Becuase the computer uses a TYPEWRITER keyboard. On a typewriter, the Enter key was known as the Carriage Return. It advanced the line and slid the carriage all the way to the left so you could start typing a new line.

In many ways, it still is the Return key, because in a word processor the enter key doesn't enter anything at all. It inserts a "hard" return that forces the cursor back to the left margin just like it always did on a typewriter.