well nobody can really claim to knowing who put the keys into their current order I think the Idea is that if the keys were set up from A-Z left to right than we all type very slowly because every one would always be searching down the line of letters looking for the one that they needed to complete a word. All I know is that I can find letters on a keyboard faster than I can singing the ABC song in my head.
Good point Jacob. I heard that the fastest typer had helped the person who made the keyboard from A to Z. Then when the creator saw that it was too easy they scrambled the letters. It was still easy to the person who heped.But the person never bothered to change it.
It was first typewriter was designed in 1874 by Remington & Sons. It used the same layout. The problem that they found by putting it from A to Z was that the bars were to close together and they bumped. The computers still use this even though they don't have bars.
I heard that they set up the keys on the keyboard so that people wouldn't type too fast and jam the typewriter. then computers came out and they could have changed around the format but people were used to the keyboard by that time so they kept the same format.
well nobody can really claim to knowing who put the keys into their current order I think the Idea is that if the keys were set up from A-Z left to right than we all type very slowly because every one would always be searching down the line of letters looking for the one that they needed to complete a word. All I know is that I can find letters on a keyboard faster than I can singing the ABC song in my head.
ReplyDeleteGood point Jacob. I heard that the fastest typer had helped the person who made the keyboard from A to Z. Then when the creator saw that it was too easy they scrambled the letters. It was still easy to the person who heped.But the person never bothered to change it.
ReplyDeleteIt was first typewriter was designed in 1874 by Remington & Sons. It used the same layout. The problem that they found by putting it from A to Z was that the bars were to close together and they bumped. The computers still use this even though they don't have bars.
ReplyDeleteI heard that they set up the keys on the keyboard so that people wouldn't type too fast and jam the typewriter. then computers came out and they could have changed around the format but people were used to the keyboard by that time so they kept the same format.
ReplyDeletethat is so not what i was thinking. you mean typing not music. I was like there is no w in a music scale. it is a thru g.
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