For a long time, I believed the story that they QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typing, because typing too fast would cause jams on old typewriters, but apparently it isn't true.

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago

Dvorak is a more elegant and memable solution. Imagine, all your vowels in a row as you snicker to decade old xkcd comics about your keyboard

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