[1][unreliable source] The term was first used in the 1960s, with the earliest known evidence of it appearing in the Daily Gleaner in Fredericton, Canada in 1968.
[2][unreliable source] This term used in the early to mid-2000s to refer to online gamers, often viewed through a particular stereotype: "The mythic keyboard warrior," the International Herald Tribune reported in 2006, "is usually portrayed as a gangly teenage boy hypnotized in the moonlight before a computer screen flickering with assorted night elves, dwarves and the forsaken undead."
The term came to be associated with online activism, including by those using the internet as a tool of resistance in more repressive environments.
[3] In China, for nearly a decade, the term jianpanxia (Chinese: 键盘侠; pinyin: jiànpánxiá) refers to people make abusive or aggressive posts without revealing their identities.
[3] Former US president Donald Trump has praised his supporters as "great keyboard warriors", calling them, "far more brilliant" than anyone working in the advertising industry.