Historical clue formulations

• Aid for getting out of a computer jam — 2025-05-26
• Tool for closing a window — 2022-09-30
• It gets pushed in a corner — 2019-11-30
• What's found above a tilde — 2019-07-19
• It's in the far northwest — 2016-02-26
• Aid in an emergency — 2008-12-06
• Way out, computerwise — 1999-02-07