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What are you talking there? Qwerty is indeed not that old as the musical notation but it is ~150 years old, and it was invented for the typing machines in order
by ccozan 10y ago
What are you talking there? Qwerty is indeed not that old as the musical notation but it is ~150 years old, and it was invented for the typing machines in order to avoid jams, so it does have some history and evolution [0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY
- shiro 10y ago"In order to avoid jams" is a popular story but it's credibility has been challenged [1]. It may be worth noted that Qwerty was made before people used all fingers and touch-typed---they were likely to use just two fingers and typing speed might be quite slow in today's standard. [1] http://gizmodo.com/qwertys-origin-story-is-a-big-fat-lie-493125302 http://gizmodo.com/qwertys-origin-story-is-a-big-fat-lie-493... (This is just a first one I found in English, but Prof. Yasuoka referred in the article publishes quite a few articles about early typewriters in Japanese, in which he lists several evidences that "jamming" wasn't the reason.)