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Why Isn't the Keyboard in Alphabetical Order?

In the 1870s, Christopher Latham Sholes and his collaborators reimagined the typewriter keyboard to solve a mechanical flaw that plagued early machines. Their QWERTY layout, designed to prevent ...
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QWERTY Traveled From Typewriter To iPhone, But Alternative Keyboards Do Exist

Last month, NPR asked listeners and readers and a Harvard professor what technologies have stuck around a little too long. "The typewriter keyboard for me is the one that is most amazing," said ...