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Thursday, April 12, 2012

April A to Z Challenge Letter "K" = Keyboard Layout #AtoZChallenge @AprilA2Z


Welcome to day eleven of the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge.
Today's letter is "K" and my topic is = KEYBOARD LAYOUT.

Did you know that the layout of the keyboard even had a name? Well, honestly I did not. Until recently my daughter schooled me on this topic. The name of the keyboard layout is QWERTY. 

QWERTY (/ˈkwɜrti/) is the most common modern-day keyboard layout. The name comes from the first six letters (keys) appearing in the top left letter row of the keyboard, read left to right: Q-W-E-R-T-Y. The QWERTY design is based on a layout created for the Sholes and Glidden typewriter and sold to Remington in the same year, when it first appeared in typewriters. It became popular with the success of the Remington No. 2 of 1878, and remains in use on electronic keyboards due to the network effect of a standard layout and a belief that alternatives fail to provide very significant advantages.The use and adoption of the QWERTY keyboard is often viewed as one of the most important case studies in open standards because of the widespread, collective adoption and use of the product, particularly in the United States.

A QWERTY keyboard on a laptop

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I thought that was an interesting fact.. Do you have any for me?

10 comments:

  1. I think my husband told me that they changed keyboards to QWERY keyboard because with the letters in alphabetical order, the typewriters couldn't keep up with how fast people typed. Changed it forced people to slow down. Just ran off to google to see if I could find what he told me and found this. http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html ^^

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  2. Wow!! I did NOT know this but apparently my daughter did!! I was reading your post aloud to the family as I found it very interesting (yes we are alittle strange that way) and she looked up and said ...oh I knew that!! Then she repeated your next line...QWERT..first letters on left upper line of the key board!!
    So I really did enjoy your post...found out a little bit more about my amazing child and we all had a great smile! Thanks sooooo very much for posting this ....I don't have any keyboard facts...but if I come up with any I will b sure to share!

    Have a fantastic weekend!

    Jaelma
    http://www.themochalife.wordpress.com

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    1. I love it that your family does that together! My daughter and I do as well. It's fun when families spend time together learning new things. ;)

      Your so welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed the post!

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  3. Hungarian keyboards are QWERTZ. COnfuses the hell out of people when they try to use my laptop :D And I need to get used to English keyboards too :) Close enough, but not the same!
    http://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com

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    1. My friend told me the very same thing about German keyboards. They are different as well. She said when she got a Kindle it was super crazy for her to get used to it.

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  4. Interesting information about the hungarian key boards :) I don't have any facts to share though, love reading about what the others are sharing.

    http://sulekharawat.com/2012/04/15/milestone/

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    1. German Keyboards are different as well. I don't know about others--no one has said anything to me yet.

      Thanks for your comment! ;)

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  5. I remember first hearing the word Qwerty and then looking at the keys on the keyboard and going Oooookay :-) That's weird about the Hungarian keyboard. Wonder why they needed to change one letter...

    Rachel Morgan Writes

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    1. I don't know why there is a difference. Honestly, I didn't do that much research on them. I think there are a few others as well. I'm not sure about how many though.

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