Computer keyboards

[walking joint]

how did they decide where to put each letter on the keyboard? i figure there is a reason each letter is where it is or it would have been done in alphabetic order. was just wondering.

[Furtherman]

John Qwerty decides.

[Snoogans]

the order is part to do with making it easier to type, but also, they first line, QWERTY is the name of the guy who invented the keyboard, so he stuck his name in and maybe built around it i guess. i dont know how the rest was ordered, just his name

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[Heavy]

His first name was Qaz

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[nickeye]

QWERTY is the name of the guy who invented the keyboard, so he stuck his name in


Stop.



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[SatCam]

my keyboard is in alphabetical order
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

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[TooCute]

It's set up such tahtthe most frequently used keys are used by the weakest fingers. This is because people used to type too quickly for typewriters and this was to slow them down. Clearly people still type quickly, and clearly jamming keys are not an issue on computers but hey, you asked why and there you go.

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[furie]

It so the tiny hammers on the backside of your screen don't jam.


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[sr71blackbird]

The QWERTY keyboard first came into the public eye in 1872 on an ackward machine called the "Type-Writer." The actual letters on the keyboard were designed so that the most popular letter combinations - such as 'TH' and 'QU' - were not next to each other. This prevented the typewriter from getting clogged and stuck. Although Professor August Dvorak of Washington State University invented a more user-friendly configuration, called the Dvorak keyboard, in 1932, the QWERTY keyboard was already standard practice. With the first word processing systems in 1972, and with the release of the Alto PC in 1975, the QWERTY keyboard was firmly established in the technological world that it still inhabits.


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This message was edited by sr71blackbird on 8-25-03 @ 8:45 AM

[Death Metal Moe]

I invented it.

You're welcome.

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[nickeye]

For some reason, the keyboards in some European countries have the Z and the Y transposed. It's verz annozing.



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[furie]

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aren't these synonyms?



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