| | Why do we use QWERTY keyboards | | Here is a funny anecdote that explains why is everyone stuck to QWERTY keyboards. Most people think, including myself, that QWERTY keyboards were designed to allow people type faster. Though this is not true.
In 1873 an engineer named Christopher Scholes designed the QWERTY keyboard to slow typists down. The typewriting machines at that time tended to jam if the typists went too fast.
Then, Remington Sewing company mass-produced a typewriter with the QWERTY keyboard. This meant that many people started to learn how to type on QWERTY keyboards. This also led smaller typewriting machines to adapt this emerging de facto standard.
So, we use QWERTY keyboards, not because they allow us type faster, but because they allow us type slower. Ironic, isn't? | |
| | What if Forward Key was available on the keyboards? | | Imagine how would be the things if there would have been a forward key as like backward key. How are life would have been more hassle free. Dont u sometime find it necessity of having forward key on the keyboard. Dont U? | |
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| Kids and Keyboards! | | Do you let your kids play with keyboards? mine LOVES to slam the keyboard and press all the buttons, i let her type to my friends sometimes, and its cute. but then she gets mad when i want her to stop lol. i should get her her own little keyboard without a cord to play with. she will grow up to be a geek like her daddy. | |
| | Virtual keyboards | | Is this for real? http://www.virtualdevices.net/ Cause if it is...i want one | |
| | computer keyboards | | Some time ago I have several people (including a college professor) tell me the easy way to clean a computer keyboard is to put it on the top rack of the dishwasher and let it run through the cycle. (Not letting it heat dry). Has anyone else heard of this or even tried it? I had mentioned it to a couple of other people just recently and they thought that I was crazy. | |
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| KeyBoards | | I was just wondering if anyone actually knows what every key on their keyboard actually does and if they use them.
I find out different things with mine all the time but still dont know what half of them do. | |
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| How often do you clean your keyboards? | | My keyboard is very messy right now. All sorts of crumbs stuck to it because my sister always eats while she is using the computer. I try banging the softly upside down so that the crumbs would fall off. But really. There's still much left in here. So I can I clean my keyboards? | |
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