In 1936, August Dvorak, a professor of education at the University of Washington, patented an alternative to the QWERTY keyboard. The QWERTY keyboard, the standard keyboard used all over the world ...

Last month, NPR asked listeners and readers and a Harvard professor what technologies have stuck around a little too long. "The typewriter keyboard for me is the one that is most amazing," said ...

Most modern keyboards are QWERTY. The QWERTY layout has no regularity in the arrangement of letters, and there was some backlash when this layout first came out. Designer Martin Vyčari explains the ...

The QWERTY keyboard layout, a source of bewilderment since its creation in the 1870s, actually follows a logical design process. Originally designed with an alphabetical order, newspaper editor ...

Since on-screen keyboards have become significantly easier to work with, most phones leave out the physical keyboard. For improved productivity, however, sometimes you need hard buttons to make typing ...

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 ...

People tend to prefer products and videos which are spelt with more letters from the right-hand side of the QWERTY keyboard, a new study has found. Out of the 11 sites included in the study , there ...

It seems so random. Patchily alphabetic, and in places wantonly arbitrary. Yet it is also the ultimate software - hard-wired into tens of millions of brains and hundreds of millions of fingers around ...