The QWERTY keyboard layout has been around since the 19th century. Aren't there other arrangements better fit for the computer age? They vary from radical changes to slight alterations.

By April 1870, his keyboard resembled the modern QWERTY layout with four rows of keys and when Sholes' design was sold to Remington in 1873, it looked like this (on the right is today's layout): ...

It’s easy to imagine the pencil-and-paper process used by those early keyboard designers. Even in 2014, most English keyboards on most devices still use QWERTY, just because enough typists have ...

The real history of the modern (QWERTY) keyboard begins in 1867, when American newspaper editor and printer Christopher Sholes built the first actual Type-Writer – in fact, that was the patented ...

It is widely believed this is how the QWERTY layout came to be, since it was ingeniously designed and agreed upon by several manufacturers to prevent the mechanical arms of the typewriter from ...

Today's trivia question: Why are the letters on a computer keyboard arranged in such a strange order? The 21st century keyboard is based on 19th century technology. When the computer's ancestor ...

The QWERTY keyboard layout has been around since the 19th century. Aren't there other arrangements better fit for the computer age? They vary from radical changes to slight alterations.