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:: Sunday, September 12, 2004 ::

Calling all QWERTY typists.

The QWERTY keyboard layout was designed to force typists to type as slowly as possible, scattering the commonest letters over all keyboard rows. The reasoning was that typewriters in the 1870's jammed if adjacent keys were struck in quick suscession so manufacturers were trying to slow down typists. After they solved the jamming problem in the 1930's the QWERTY keyboard was too entrenched to ever change to something more efficient.

:: Jim Nichols 9/12/2004 07:57:00 PM [+] ::
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