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Originally Posted by justsexxx
You made me curious..
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak-toetsenbord
So QWERTY was used for old typing machines, where you had to press the buttons very HARD, while this system was designer for the keyboards we use now(dvorak was created in 1930 tho)
Hmm, will be a bitch to learn typing again tho :S |
Actually, on old typewriters, each letter was attached to an arm that would raise up and strike the paper. If you typed fast and hit two letters close to each other, the arms would usually get tangled and you'd have to manually untangle them.
QWERTY was designed to seperate letters that were often typed together so as to reduce the frequency of the arms getting tangled. And, it was also designed to consistantly switch the "action" from one hand to another in order to speed up typing and reduce the activity of each hand.
Dvorak did his layout in the mid-30s after the advent of electric typewriters which didn't have arms for the keys.
(I had to take lots of typing classes in high school).