A Brief History of Keyboards
- 2. If bikes evolved the same way keyboards did, here's
how you'd be doing Bike to Work…
- 4. In the 1870s, Christopher Latham Sholes created the
first typewriter
- 7. 3 5 7 9 N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
2 4 6 8 . A B C D E F G H I J K L M
- 10. The qwerty layout was created to prevent jams by
increasing the distance between frequent letters
- 13. He came to the conclusion that qwerty is highly
inefficient
- 15. So he created the Dvorak layout, aka Dvorak
Simplified Keyboard (DSK)
- 17. This layout focuses on usage of the home row,
hands alternance, and n-grams (mostly bigrams)
- 19. Today we're using a keyboard layout that was
designed for mechanical limitations that don't
exist anymore
- 29. “I'm tired of trying to do something worthwhile
for the human race, they simply don't want to
change”
August Dvorak
