For a long time, I believed the story that they QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typing, because typing too fast would cause jams on old typewriters, but apparently it isn’t true.
Skip to 3:00 for the part that talks about this.
For a long time, I believed the story that they QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typing, because typing too fast would cause jams on old typewriters, but apparently it isn’t true.
Skip to 3:00 for the part that talks about this.
Yeah they do! Actually a Japanese research paper (and this video) also theorises that they also grouped similar sounding letters in American Morse Code together (e.g. Z
∙ ∙ ∙ ∙& SE∙ ∙ ∙ ∙, or C∙ ∙ ∙& S∙ ∙ ∙)