“show me a comprehensive timeline of release dates of mechanical keyboards over the last 10 years. go month by month with date filters etc.”
A web-sourced index of 592 distinct mechanical-keyboard model releases across the 120 months from September 2016 through August 2026, assembled from manufacturer announcements, press releases and specialist publications. 369 entries carry an exact day; 223 are dated to the month only. 2016 and 2026 are partial years, and a zero month means no qualifying release was located in the scanned sources — not proof none existed.
Dates written YYYY-MM mean the source supported only month precision; YYYY-MM-DD is day precision. “Release date” is the earliest located announcement, launch, availability, preorder opening or first shipment. Click a bar to zoom the filters to that month.
| Year | Models | Exact-day | Month-only | Months with matches | Source pages | Example source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 (partial) | 15 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 11 | en.namu.wiki |
| 2017 | 34 | 13 | 21 | 11 | 22 | gamersnexus.net |
| 2018 | 39 | 23 | 16 | 10 | 26 | prnewswire.com |
| 2019 | 47 | 25 | 22 | 12 | 30 | kitguru.net |
| 2020 | 31 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 22 | mechanical-keyboard.org |
| 2021 | 48 | 32 | 16 | 11 | 33 | blog.keeb.io |
| 2022 | 65 | 36 | 29 | 12 | 46 | forums.windowscentral.com |
| 2023 | 41 | 31 | 10 | 11 | 33 | press.asus.com |
| 2024 | 45 | 31 | 14 | 11 | 34 | industrytoday.co.uk |
| 2025 | 94 | 70 | 24 | 12 | 67 | finance.yahoo.com |
| 2026 (partial) | 133 | 82 | 51 | 8 | 95 | pmarketresearch.com |
2016 covers September–December only and 2026 covers January–August only, so their empty months are window edges, not full-year gaps.
The date-range, precision, basis and search filters above also drive this table. Click a column header to sort; month headers group the rows.
| Date | Precision | Model | Basis | Source title | Link |
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Method: web-sourced index of mechanical-keyboard releases, 592 model rows across 120 months (2016-09 to 2026-08), built from two broad web searches over ~4,500 URL-deduplicated pages with semantic extraction capped at the first 2,000 results per pass — an extensive index, not a census. Switches, keycaps, accessories, musical keyboards, colour-only variants and later reviews were excluded; names were normalized while generations, sizes and layouts stayed separate; conflicts resolved toward the earliest, most precise, most primary date. 369 rows are day-precise, 223 month-only. Zero months mean nothing was located in scanned sources.