The QWERTY keyboard layout is commonly found on computers in the United States. It was first created in the early 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes, a newspaper editor and printer. You know you have ...

You use your keyboard every day, but I bet you've rarely thought about why your keys are where they are. In the 1870s, typewriter manufacturers arranged the keys to prevent mechanical jams. Over a ...

Alternative keyboards have been around for a long time, and while the traditional QWERTY keyboard won the fight, that doesn't mean the other layouts aren't worth considering. Advocates for alternative ...

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