The QWERTY keyboard layout was invented in the 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes to prevent typewriter keys from jamming. It remains the most widely used keyboard layout today. Representative Image ...

Ever noticed the non-alphabetical keyboard layout? Typewriters’ history holds the answer. Invented to speed up writing, early models jammed when keys were pressed consecutively. Christopher Sholes’ ...

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It has been around since the 1870s - but many people still have no idea why we use QWERTY keyboards. Originally, early typewriters used an alphabetical arrangement but newspaper editor Christopher ...

The QWERTY keyboard has puzzled many since its invention in the 1870s, but there's indeed a method to its seemingly random configuration. Initially featuring an alphabetical setup, newspaper editor ...