About the Keyboard

The Vintage Keyboard Has Not Changed

Technology is changing faster than the speed of light and so is the keyboard equipment. Today you can find modern keyboards like in the following link: Laser Keyboard. For portability, one could do without carrying around a long, bulky, and heavy keyboard; with Bluetooth technology and laser light you can make any surface your keyboard. In addition, presently there are wireless and fully integrated ergonomically designed keyboards. There are countless of models that are engineered specifically for large to small electronics.
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It is interesting to notice that the order of the keys have not changed from their original creation. You’re probably wondering why they would need to be changed. Let’s discuss the history of the creation of the keyboard and then one will know why the argument.

As with the airplane, and automobile there were many brilliant inventors and efforts in the creation of the electrical type writer. History documents that in 1872 Christopher Latham Shole and others invented the first workable and commercial sold “Type-Writer.” There were however many drawbacks; the typist could not see what they were keying and the keys would jam. With the original letter layout, the typist was much to fast and key jams were much too often common. Shole, after years of trying to slow down the typist to, he redesigned the layout. He shuffled the keys to what we know today-the “QWERTY” keyboard.

The QWERTY keyboard or layout is named after the top row of letters on keyboard. Interesting to say, if you look on the second row of your keyboard you will see the name of the layout. Typewriters have evolved to computing. The irony is that we have computers today that do not have the technical limitations of the mechanical typewriter and we continue to adopt this layout.
QWERTY Keyboard Layout

There have been attempts to change the layout but none have been adopted by the general public. The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard layout patent in 1936 by Dr. August Dvorak, is one attempt to arrange keys so that frequently-used keys are the quickest to key.
Dvork Simplified Keyboard