Why keyboard is Qwerty:
The arrangement of characters on a QWERTY keyboard was designed in
1868 by Christopher Sholes, the inventor of the typewriter. According to
popular myth, Sholes arranged the keys in their odd fashion to prevent jamming
on mechanical typewriters by separating commonly used letter combinations.
QWERTY refers to them arrangement of
keys on a Standard English computer keyboard or typewriter. The name
derives from the first six characters on the top alphabetic line
of the keyboard.
Arrangement
of Characters
The arrangement of characters on a QWERTY keyboard was designed in 1868
by Christopher Sholes, the inventor of the typewriter. According to popular
myth, Sholes arranged the keys in their odd fashion to prevent jamming on
mechanical typewriters by separating commonly used letter combinations.
However, there is no evidence to support this assertion,
except that the arrangement does, in fact, inhibit fast typing.
New Keyboards:
With
the emergence of ball-head electric typewriters and computer keyboards, on
which jamming is not an issue, new keyboards designed for speed typing has been
invented. The best-known is called a Dvorak keyboard. Despite their more rational designs, these new
keyboards have not received wide acceptance. The AZERTY keyboard is the French version of the
standard QWERTY keyboard.
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