Why a QWERTY Keyboard???
We have been using the keyboard everyday and in almost every aspect of our lives may it be the smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops and all our smart devices. Ever wondered why our keyboard is not laid out in alphabetical orders?? In the early typewriters, the keyboard was laid out in alphabetical orders. Then why did it happen that the layout of our keyboard was changed to the current QWERTY type?? Let’s find out this in this post. The answer to this lies in the working of the old typewriters. In order to type something using a typewriter we hit a key. A mechanical system works such that with every hit a bar rises up and hits to the ribbon beneath which a paper is placed. Due to this hit an impression of the alphabet is printed on the paper. This chain of mechanical systems works so fast by the time another alphabet is pressed the type bar reverts back to its original position. This was the layout of the earliest typewriters. The issue with...