A desk is a piece of furniture that is used as a means of work and study in homes or offices.
The desk is a piece of furniture similar to a table, but it tends to differ in its use. While the table is often located in a kitchen or dining room, the desk is associated with work or student internships. It is used to read, write, draw, plan, and organize.
The most traditional desks are made of wood, but there are also plastic, steel and glass. They can be small or large, but in general they have a rectangular shape with four or more legs. They often contain built-in drawers, shelves, or shelves to facilitate work practices that often require pencil, paper, supplies, books, and other items. A desk can be located in a professional office or study, but also included in bedrooms, bedrooms, and private or family study rooms.
Going to the history of the desk, researchers believe that in classical antiquity the first desks could already be seen as reading and writing furniture. In the Renaissance and, later, in the seventeenth and seventeenth centuries, the more traditional desks began to be built. Product of the Industrial Age, in the 19th century, desks would become an increasingly common and cheap commodity.
At the end of the '80s, with the appearance of computers or computers, desks began a new transformation. Currently, a desktop has a function often linked to the functionality of computers, and that is why they are built by designing relevant spaces for the location of a static computer (they are called "desktop") or mobile such as a notebook. In addition, it is very common that spaces are included for other computing units such as the printer.
On the other hand, with the advent of computing and its new terminology, the virtual space that, in a given computer system, presents the information frequently used by the user, also began to be called "desktop". The "virtual desktop" or "desktop" It is the first instance that an individual arrives after turning on the computer.
