March 1, 1873, Remington Company invents the QWERTY keyboard

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...arranging the keys in the qwerty manner to reduce the likelihood of physically jamming when popular keys are pressed rapidly.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I wanted to learn DVORAK once, but apparently it takes like 6 months to train yourself to over-write the QWERTY layout in your brain, and then the speed gains are only like 20% or so. And then also you can't use any other normal keyboard without having to think about it super hard. So I ended up deciding it wasn't worth it.

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I've been working on life without arrow keys for like a year. The struggle is real.

[–]m68k 3 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 5 fun -  (2 children)

At least they made it easy to type "QWERTY". :3

[–]useless_aether[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

the most popular password not counting 12345

[–]m68k 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

12345? That's amazing, I got the same combination on my luggage. :3

[–]ManWithABanana 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I didn't realize it was that long ago. 1873 ? !

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Time flys.