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Obviously historical reasons due to how typewriters in those countries were once organized. Keyboard layouts seldom seem to be particularly thought out, and th
by Blikkentrekker 6y ago
Obviously historical reasons due to how typewriters in those countries were once organized.
Keyboard layouts seldom seem to be particularly thought out, and the strange position of keys today is due to the historical reason of how the mechanical implementation of typewriters worked.
The world is filled with rather unbecoming design choices, simply in service of inertia.
- lordnacho 6y agoThat just pushes back the question though. If you're importing the first typewriter from say Germany to the UK, wouldn't you make minimal changes?
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoHow it actually went historically is that different brands had completely different layouts until some sort of standardization emerged within particular locations. It is not as though one country had a standardized layout before other countries started manufacturing typewriters.