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zokier on May 5, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Story Behind the QWERTY Keyboard

I'm not really sure why, if at all, the origins of QWERTY layout matter.

coldtea on May 5, 2013 [–]

Because the origin "story" was that Qwerty was designed to make you type slower (to not jam the keys in typewriters) and is thus inherently slower and inferior by design.

(It was indeed made to not jam the keys, but not by making the typist type slower).

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