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> basic keyboard designed in the 19th century You seem to mean the 20th century.
by dao- 7y ago
> basic keyboard designed in the 19th century
You seem to mean the 20th century.
- jacobolus 7y agoThe basic design is from the 1870s.
- dao- 7y agoAh, fair enough. I thought it could be possible but all your actual examples were from the 20th century.
- mrob 7y agoMost modern keyboards are the result of small iterative changes to the keyboard of the first commercially successful typewriter, released in 1874. Note the QWERTY layout and staggered rows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholes_and_Glidden_typewriter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholes_and_Glidden_typewriter