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why the letters in keyboards are arranged like this?

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Mar 15, 20269653 views
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Does anyone have a good explanation why the keyboard of computers has this weird way of arrangements? QWERTY and others? I know they take it from typewriters? but still? why didn't they arrange it alphabetically, in the first place?

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They were arranged in the QWERTY order so that keys wouldn't be easily broken. In the very old typewriter days, if you hit too many keys too close to each others too often, they would start interfering with each other. The QWERTY method was designed…

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