Computer Keyboard History
The invention of the computer keyboard (QWERTY keyboard) starts with the typewriter. The inventor of the typewriter is Christopher Sholes who also designed the arrangement of characters of keyboard which is called QWERTY keyboard. The name of QWERTY derives from the first six characters on the top alphabetic line of the keyboard.
August 20th, 2006 at 11:16 pm
[...] As the Internet’s most comprehensive website that covers news and reviews about keyboards, Compkeyboard.com website insists that that although we seldom use the Caps Key in our regular typing activity, we should not remove the Caps Key unless we can find a more suitable key to replace this key which is in very good position on QWERTY keyboard design. [...]
December 27th, 2006 at 5:56 pm
[...] When we talk about keyboard layout, we will think about QWERTY keyboard layout which was invented by Christopher Sholes 1868. Why, because we are trained to use QWERTY keyboards without any questionings. About 15 years ago, I still remembered that I had to paid for attending typing classes to learn how to use QWERTY keyboard without asking why each key has be to arranged in this specific layout. [...]
January 17th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
I am very questioned about why the keyboard layout is arranged like that,
is that the inventor’s random arrangement or is he fallowed any algorithm or the analysis to arrange the keys,
If you know the answer please post the ,message.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
The computer keyboard comes from the typewriter. There are two different types of layouts for it. One is the QWERTY and the other is Dvorak.
November 30th, 2007 at 9:27 am
you people are stupid
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:18 am
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July 29th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
There are actually more than just the QWERTY keyboard and the Dvorak keyboard, but none of them were considered a big enough improvement on the QWERTY to make the changeover. Besides, once everyone had learnt to type well on the QWERTY, it would make a full-scale changeover very difficult.
August 25th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
this is kinda gay