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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Lu_e on Mon, 06 May 2013, 11:25:35

Title: 'After all, the world learned to type using Remington's keyboard...'
Post by: Lu_e on Mon, 06 May 2013, 11:25:35

Just happened to see this article that talks about og patents etc.. for layouts of typewriters. Kinda fun, but not that great. Comments kinda get into more... lol

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2013/05/fact-of-fiction-the-legend-of-the-qwerty-keyboard

Title: Re: 'After all, the world learned to type using Remington's keyboard...'
Post by: daerid on Mon, 06 May 2013, 12:31:45

Read that yesterday. Fascinating read. It's almost too much to try and figure out what really happened.

Title: Re: 'After all, the world learned to type using Remington's keyboard...'
Post by: hashbaz on Mon, 06 May 2013, 13:03:38

Haha, I saw this article just 20 minutes ago and was going to post it.  Fascinating read.

Title: Re: 'After all, the world learned to type using Remington's keyboard...'
Post by: davkol on Mon, 06 May 2013, 13:04:59

That's one of the stupidest articles I've read recently. Any logical reasoning is simply absent there.

Dammit, I'm talking about a completely different article.