Free Know-how for Lecturers: The Story Behind QWERTY

Pondering again to my center faculty typing class (achieved on electrical typewriters, not computer systems) I keep in mind questioning why the keyboard wasn’t organized in alphabetical order. I used to be just lately reminded of that when my five-year-old requested me the identical query. I knew that the reply was associated to the frequency of use of sure letters and in addition the early limitations of typewriter keyboard configurations. However to get a greater reply I turned to YouTube the place I knew I had seen a video on the subject not that way back. 

CNN’s The Story Behind QWERTY explains the origins of the QWERTY keyboard and why it’s nonetheless the usual on pc keyboards in the present day.