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History and QWERTY

A fairly good summary of the early history of typewriters and QWERTY by The History Guy. Posted by shinjikun10.

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Published June 25, 2021
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For most keyboard enthusiast this video shouldn't contain much new info about QWERTY. Still, this is a quite good historical summary of the early typewriters.

A news report in 1905 claimed that the final proposal for the qwerty keyboard was in 1875 by a typist named Mrs. M. A. Sanders who is described as the first professional typist.

(P.S.: Did you notice how hard it is to type QWERTY on alternative and custom layouts?)

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Published on Fri 25th Jun 2021. Featured in KBD #32 (source).


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