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150 years ago, an American inventor by the name of Christopher Latham Sholes developed a machine to allow people to easily put text onto paper by pressing mechanical keys. He called his invention the “type writer”.

After years of tinkering and adjusting, he finally came up with an arrangement of the keys that worked. The letters on the left side of the top row were Q-W-E-R-T-Y.

We have basically been using the same keyboard ever since. 

Learn more about the QWERTY keyboard and its many failed alternatives on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

https://everything-everywhere.com/skillshare

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Executive Producer James Makkyla

Associate Producer Thor Thomsen

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