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Why does the keyboard start with QWERTY, not ABCD? This is the story behind the layout

You may use a keyboard every day. Odds are, you never think about the six letters on the top left corner: Q-W-E-R-T-Y. It seems unnecessarily complicated to arrange ...

Everyday explained: Why are keyboard letters not arranged in alphabetical order?

Ever wondered why your keyboard starts with QWERTY instead of following alphabetical order? The answer goes back to the ...
PBS

QWERTY: How Wisconsin Holds the Keys to Typing History

Uncover the surprising Wisconsin origins of the QWERTY keyboard. The team heads to Milwaukee to uncover how the QWERTY keyboard took shape in Wisconsin. They explore how Christopher Latham Sholes and ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Milwaukee celebrates 150th anniversary of universal, yet inefficient, QWERTY keyboard

It's rare these days to see anyone pounding away on an old manual Royal or Smith-Corona. But one element of those machines lives on, and is used constantly in daily life. Just as Milwaukee is the ...
Marketplace

The history of the keyboard is filled with battles, controversies and lasers

In his book “Shift Happens,” Marcin Wichary explains the innovations that turned the typewriter of 1873 into the keyboards of today. How many hours a day do you spend at a computer typing? Or staring ...