+412 When you were learning to type, you wondered why the letters weren't in alphabetical order, now you're happy the way they made it, amirite?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Actually they were originally made that way to slow typists down. QWERTY is purposely inefficient because they wanted to stop people from typing fast enough to jam up their typewriters. *THE MORE YOU KNOW* Of course, it's a dumb idea, because no matter what the layout is, people will eventually get used to it. The most efficient layout for English is supposedly Dvorak, but I've never tried it. It's supposed to make it so that both hands work equally. With QWERTY I tend to find that the left side of the keyboard gets used more than the right side.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Well, shit. You explained it a hell of a lot better than I would have.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Actually that's a myth; I remember reading somewhere that that's a commonly believed false statement

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Aah Knowledge :D

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm eating chips.

by Anonymous 14 years ago