What if I spill a drink on my keyboard..

Better yet, put the keyboard upside down on the top shelf of the dishwasher and wash it. This works like a charm. I first read about this in either a newspaper or online, but we have used this method for a number of keyboards and works great. Turn it upside down on the towels for a few days until you are 100% sure everything is dry. Not for laptops!!! (And don't wash the dishes at the same time, and only use a tiny amount of dishwashing powder.)

Whatever you do - DO NOT - take the above advice. That is clearly an "April Fool"!!!!!!

I especially like the bit about not adding too much detergent....very humourous.

I heard the dishwasher trick actually works. If you are going to throw it away anyway, why not try it? I wouldn't use the heated drying though.

It really does work. I have seen it done and the keyboard works great. They key is to let it sit for a few days after to be sure it's dry. Not recommended for wireless ones though.

It is true there is no harm in giving a bath to a keyboard. But the water should be distilled water. The mineral particles and other reactive elements in normal water can damage the keyboard.

Speaking of Laptops..spill into one caused no display. Computer part seems to work. Can it be saved?

Don't put the keyboard in the dishwasher. Instead, take it apart and wash the pieces separately. Most modern keyboards use "rubber dome" technology, it's REALLY simple. The keys are just plastic pieces held in a frame, sitting above a piece of flexible rubber with little domes under each key. This sits above 3 pieces of plastic. The top and bottom pieces have circuits printed on them, held just barely apart by the middle layer. Pressing a key pushes the two circuit layers together. (If that sounds complicated, it's because of my description - it's REALLY simple once you see it)

Keyboards are usually held together by about a dozen screws in the bottom. Take out a regular philips screwdriver, unscrew the screws, and pull the keyboard apart. Then you can wash the plastic keys at the top, because now there's NO ELECTRONICS connected to it. Just run it under a faucet and you'll be fine. Towel it off and put the thing back together again. Much quicker and wildly safer than putting the keyboard into a dishwasher!

You CAN put keyboard in the dishwasher. On the top rack, it will even survive heat drying cycle. If you want, you can even take the components out of the PC case and wash those too. As long as there is no power, and the pieces dry out thoroughly before applying power, it is perfectly OK to wash computer components.

When I used to work on mainframes in the '70s/80s, standard procedure for NCR mainframe at our bank processing center was a once-a-year cleaning. On a hot summer Sunday, we would disconnect all the cabinets, roll them out the freight elevator to the parking lot, and hose down the cabinets, inside and out. Then using compressed air, blow dry the cabinets, take them back upstairs, reconnect them and run diagnostics. Worked perfectly well to clean out the dust bunnies and literal "bug's". Remember, water and computer parts are fine together. Electricity and computer parts are fine together. Water and electricity are not fine together.

It's not April Fool. You can wash computer parts. I agree with Mark,
been also doing it in the 80s and 90s, for keyboard and other computer parts except the HDD, of course HDD will be damaged by water but other parts will be fine. Just make sure it's dry before you plug everything under voltage. Usually it takes several days to completly dry it.