Typing could have evolved very differently, and these layouts are the evidence.
"Fingers on the home row!" Those words were drilled into us every single day in basic keyboarding class in high school. What is the "home row," you may wonder? Well, knowing the "home row" is the ...
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 ...
In 1936, August Dvorak, a professor of education at the University of Washington, patented an alternative to the QWERTY keyboard. The QWERTY keyboard, the standard keyboard used all over the world ...
Christopher Sholes and the birth of the QWERTY layout To solve this problem, Christopher Latham Sholes thought of a simple but very interesting solution. He thought, why not arrange the letters in ...