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I was under the impression that the story about QWERTY being designed to slow typists down has been shown to be a myth eg. https://www.theatlantic.com/technolo
by ghostpepper 3y ago
I was under the impression that the story about QWERTY being designed to slow typists down has been shown to be a myth
eg. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/the-lies-youve-been-told-about-the-origin-of-the-qwerty-keyboard/275537/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/the-l...
- ComputerGuru 3y agoI had never come across that before - and I’m one of those guilty of spreading this origin story far and wide. Thanks for linking it - I think I have more reading to do! I suppose QWERTY could very well be incidentally terrible rather than intentionally so (the keyboard travel in comparison to other layouts is genuinely worse).