It has been around since the 1870s – but many people still have no idea why we use QWERTY keyboards. Originally, early typewriters used an alphabetical arrangement but newspaper editor Christopher Latham Sholes discovered an issue with the letter layout and created a new design.
At first, in 1867, Sholes, working with his friends Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soulé, came up with a piano-like keyboard with two rows of characters. The letters were arranged alphabetically ... Read even more
