History | Updated: February 25, 2025 | Originally Published: May 3, 2013 The invention’s true origin story has long been the subject of debate. Some argue it was created to prevent typewriter jams, ...

Most modern keyboards are QWERTY. The QWERTY layout has no regularity in the arrangement of letters, and there was some backlash when this layout first came out. Designer Martin Vyčari explains the ...

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 ...

Back in 1896, the QWERTY keyboard layout was created to increase typing speed, but for a reason that is no longer valid on today's computers. The first typing machines had keyboards with an ...

Take a look at your keyboard for a second. Notice how the letters jump around like a secret code — Q, W, E, R, T, Y. It is ...

The standard typewriter keyboard layout used throughout the world. Q, W, E, R, T and Y are the letter keys starting at the top left, alphabetic row. Designed by Christopher Sholes, who invented the ...

The selection was rather limited last year for people who wanted to purchase a phone-enabled mobile device with a QWERTY thumb keyboard. You had the ever popular RIM BlackBerry models targeted to the ...

Why QWERTY keyboard: Have you ever wondered why the letters on your computer or laptop keyboard are placed in such a random manner? Why do we get a pattern like QWERTY instead of the simple rhythm of ...