Mertcan Bulak: Originally the keyboard was designed to slow the typist down. Letter-wise, our familiar keyboard is basically unchanged from the earliest specimens of the 1870s, exemplified in the 1874 Remington manual typewriter, the first commercially successful one. This keyboard deliberately forces the typist’s fingers to stretch to find the likely letter combinations of English. The purpose in 1874 was to help prevent jamming. The Q key is safely distant from the key of Q’s constant companion—the letter U. In English, we almost never write Q without writing U next to it; thus, Q is a left-hand key while U is a right-hand one. And although technology has since banished the jamming problem, the keyboard design is too deeply entrenched ever to change.

Originally the keyboard was designed to slow the typist down. Letter-wise, our familiar keyboard is basically unchanged from the earliest specimens of the 1870s, exemplified in the 1874 Remington manual typewriter, the first commercially successful one. This keyboard deliberately forces the typist’s fingers to stretch to find the likely letter combinations of English. The purpose in 1874 was to help prevent jamming. The Q key is safely distant from the key of Q’s constant companion—the letter U. In English, we almost never write Q without writing U next to it; thus, Q is a left-hand key while U is a right-hand one. And although technology has since banished the jamming problem, the keyboard design is too deeply entrenched ever to change.

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