What idiot invented the QWERTY keyboard?

C. L. Sholes -- he received the patent in 1878.

As i recall, the historical invention and design of keyboard started during world war on mechanical typing machine. It's designed to suit with the English language convenience.

Try google it or wikipedia to learn more its invention history

It is convenient to me, even though i'm not using english as my primary language

I agree totally I cant imagine why anyone in the world would try to mobilize the keyboard! its very cluttered and definitely needs to be resolved i found a really cool article on the same topic awhile back

http://purpleslinky.com/humor/computer/who-invente...

The layout was designed so that successive keystrokes would alternate sides of the keyboard so as to avoid jams in manual typewriters.

Christopher Sholes invented it so that the most common letters weren't so close. This was back when people used typewriters so sometimes the type bars would jam. This arrangement of the letters prevented that. It just stuck.

Look it up on Wikipedia.

You can change your keyboard layout without replacing the physical hardware. I use Dvorak -- you get much higher throughput with typing this way also.

try using this free for the day program it lets you remap keyboard keys.

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/keyextender/

I did!

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