Typing could have evolved very differently, and these layouts are the evidence.

A few years back I was at a convention somewhere and I stumbled into Palm's booth. They were showcasing a small half-qwerty keyboard. I was instantly in love, but didn't have the $$$ to drop on one.

Back in 1896, the QWERTY keyboard layout was created to increase typing speed, but for a reason that is no longer valid on today's computers.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

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 ...

Fact of the day: the QWERTY keyboard is bad. It does not provide the best way to type. We've known this for a while, and yet we're still using it; the QWERTY keyboard, developed in 1868, has somehow ...

If you answered yes, we have some bad news because you are probably wrong. It turns out the QWERTY layout — a keyboard that has “Q”, “W”, “E”, “R”, “T”, and “Y” as the first keys from the left on the ...

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Tradition says that there are two primary kinds of typists: touch-typists who are familiar enough with a keyboard's layout to type without having to look at the keyboard while they type, and ...

The QWERTY keyboard was invented by Christopher Latham Sholes in the 1870s – and has stayed around ever since. Today, QWERTY's widespread adoption and legacy ensure its dominance, even in the face of ...