Why do early FPS that lacked mouselook such as Doom use CTRL and ALT for shooting and strafing as default?

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Its so annoying! Especially with how its show easy to accidentally press the windows key and escape DosBox! I already customized my controls but I’m so curious who’s the morons who decided this would be a intuitive default control? I mean have they ever thought someone might exit the game multiple times by accident?

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They did not have mouse look.
Instead of using a mouse, your right hand was on the arrow keys, controlling how to look.
Also the windows key only came into being after Doom was released, as it originates with Windows 95.

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