QWERTY

Brooks Farish
IHSS
Blog - QWERTY
When reading Guns Germs and Steel I stumbled upon page 423 talking about QWERTY. QWERTY is referring to the type of keyboard that is most common around the world and is the one probably right in front of you. This topic was so interesting and very relevant in my life so that's why I decided to do some research into it.
During around 1840-1890 many people were attempting to create the best keyboard along with a typewriter. This lead to many different types of keyboard designs coming about. One of them being QWERTY designed by Christopher Sholes. You must keep in mind that this is in a time where people were using typewriters. Because of this fact, some say QWERTY came about to space out common letters and slow writers down so they would jam the typewriters. Later down the road Remington, the gun company got into the typewriter business and started producing models with QWERTY. It was a huge success! Because of this success, all other typewriter companies started adopting QWERTY and thus became the industry norm.

Source:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/fact-of-fiction-the-legend-of-the-qwerty-keyboard-49863249/

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