Its all about Keyboard. Yes from typing machine to computer
and from laptop to smartphones the basic thing we need to operate these
machines is a keyboard. But have you ever thought where did this keyboard come
from? Who introduced it and for what purpose.
Well if you’re searching for these answers you’re at the
right place. Not only this, The arrangements of letters of a keyboard is
arranged for a purpose and with some trick so that the users can use it with
accessibility.
Let’s not waste any more time and hop into it. The keyboard
was firstly used for typing machines back then in 80’s and it was completely
different compared to the present one. The numbers and alphabets were arranged
in a different way.
The were arranged in the serial order because it was the
birth of keyboard and the inventor thought arranging the alphabets in a row
would be good for the user to type easily and quickly. But that wasn’t the
right decision people had to see the keyboard every time they type a word
because of the serial arrangements of the alphabets and the numbers.
And then there were few changes made which helped the users
to interact with the keyboard but even that wasn’t good enough. In the picture
below you can see the keyboard with arrangements of keys for the second time.
Well, it had its own problems like jamming of keys because of side to side
arrangements of letters.
Then QWERTY keyboard was introduced and you’ll be shocked if
I say you why the inventor made the qwerty keyboard. Yes, he made it slow down
the user’s speed. Shocking right? But there’s a reason behind this and that is
the more speed the user get the fast he types so due to this the keys were
getting jammed and because of this reason the qwerty keyboard was introduced.
The amazing fact about this is the inventor split the most
often used letters on the keyboard to make the users type slow. Interesting
right? but there’s always a point in changing something. The most important
point of inventing the qwerty keyboard is that the user will be able to use it
without seeing the keyboard often times.
And this is how the keyboard has been improved by facing
changes in the arrangements of alphabets and numbers.
