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Bookmark or Share- QWERTY - History, Evolution, and Why Is It the Way It Is?The QWERTY keyboard was introduced by American inventor and newspaper publisher, Christopher Latham Sholes. Sholes developed a number of devices to make his businesses more efficient.
- Why do we all use Qwerty keyboards? - BBC NewsIt is the ultimate user-machine interface - replicated on the keyboards of computers, and some of the most sophisticated PDAs and mobile phones across the world. Yet it is pretty much unchanged ...
- Where Did the QWERTY Keyboard Come From? - Smithsonian MagazineIn 1866, Christopher Latham Sholes, a Wisconsin newspaper publisher and former state senator, co-invented an automated machine to number coupons and tickets—a task previously done by hand.
- Why is ‘qwerty’ on our keyboards? - BBCLegend has it that Qwerty – known for the jabberwocky-style word formed by the first six letters of its top row – was dreamt up with the express purpose of slowing typists down.
- The QWERTY Keyboard Is Tech's Biggest Unsolved Mystery - How-To GeekIt's on your computer keyboard and your smartphone screen: QWERTY, the first six letters of the top row of the standard keyboard layout. But no one knows how it originated, and the puzzle has been frustrating historians for over a century.
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