The QWERTY keyboard layout has been around since the 1870s and it's still the most common layout used on keyboards today - but many people are still puzzled as to why
The QWERTY keyboard has puzzled many since its invention in the 1870s, but there's indeed a method to its seemingly random configuration.
Yet, after half a decade gathering user complaints about persistent key jams, Sholes rejigged the letters to better accommodate typists, culminating in an 1870 reveal of a four-line keyboard with vowels A, E, I, O, U, and consonant Y just beneath the numerals: The experts at Tech Target explained: "The QWERTY arrangement was intended to reduce the jamming of typebars as they moved to strike ink on paper. Separating certain letters from each other on the keyboard reduced the amount of jamming."
"The QWERTY layout quickly became the standard for typewriters and has remained so for computers and other digital devices to this day. There are a number of variations of the QWERTY layout, depending on the language and region, but the basic arrangement of the keys is generally the same."
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