Ever wondered why the alphabets on the keyboard are not alphabetically arranged or in no other particular chronology like everything else? We’re so used to arrangement today, but it might have created a whole lot of confusion in the 1800s when it came into use.
Why Such An Unusual Pattern?
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He made a deal with Remington which incorporated the new qwerty keyboard in their Remington No. 2 machine. Fun fact is that the top row of the qwerty keyboard has all the letters to make the word ‘typewriter’.
There Is A Plot Twist
However, there are two researchers that have a different theory. In 2011, Koichi Yasuoka and Motoko Yasuoka tracked the evolution of the keyboard back to Morse code. They argued that early typewriters were used by telegraph operators who found the alphabetical arrangement confusing for transcribing messages.
Either way, the qwerty keyboard gained familiarity among the masses. This led to its adoption on electronic keyboards on computers. This is the keyboard that has become a key component of all our digital appliances today. We have come to love and depend on it and can’t imagine the keyboard in any other arrangement.