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Alternatively referred to as the Sholes keyboard, the QWERTY keyboard was invented by Christopher Sholes, who was issued a patent for a typewriter on July 14, 1868. The QWERTY keyboard is named after the first five alphabetic keys located under the row of number keys on the keyboard and is the official computer keyboard standard (ISO 9995).
Today, the QWERTY keyboard is the most commonly found and used computer keyboard in the United States. Below is an image of the keyboard keys layout on the QWERTY keyboard.
Why are the keyboard keys not in alphabetical order?
There are conflicting accounts of the origin of the QWERTY layout. One account, and possibly the most common, is that the QWERTY layout was initially formed to slow typists down. The old-style typewriters would jam if two adjacent keys were pressed in quick succession. However, the QWERTY layout helped make people type faster since the keys would not stick as frequently. Another account, according to the Smithsonian Institute, is that the layout was formed through several trial and error layouts from early telegraph operators. They found the original alphabetical arrangement of the keys to be too confusing for translating morse code. The QWERTY layout eventually made it faster for them to type.
Related pages
Azerty, Dvorak, Half-QWERTY, Keyboard terms
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| Description | English: A 104-key US keyboard layout, largely standardized since the IBM Personal System/2. |
| Date | 2005-10-11(algne üleslaadimiskuupäev) |
| Source | Own work |
| Author | Drawn by Mysid in CorelDRAW. |
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| current | 18:29, 23 December 2018 | 799 × 385 (70 KB) | Euka(talk | contribs) | Seems reverting did not work. Downloaded Azaghal of Belegosts version and reuploaded as plain SVG (i.e. without all the inkscape specific stuff). |
| 18:20, 23 December 2018 | 799 × 385 (66 KB) | Euka(talk | contribs) | Reverted vandalism(?), new version had letters in alphabetical order | |
| 13:03, 21 November 2018 | 799 × 385 (67 KB) | Xtrmn(talk | contribs) | Changed backspace arrow to match style of cursor keys, tab, and enter. Changed endmarker on enter to match the stroke color of the line. | |
| 23:53, 2 January 2011 | 799 × 385 (66 KB) | Azaghal of Belegost(talk | contribs) | Changed backspace arrow to match style of cursor keys, tab, and enter. Changed endmarker on enter to match the stroke color of the line. | |
| 23:47, 2 January 2011 | 799 × 385 (65 KB) | Azaghal of Belegost(talk | contribs) | Fixed arrows on tab and enter and regularized arrows on cursor keys and numpad. | |
| 17:18, 9 February 2008 | 799 × 385 (44 KB) | Ymulleneers(talk | contribs) | {{Information |Description= Qwerty keyboard with system keys |Source= http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Qwerty.svg |Date= 09/02/2008 |Author= Yves Mulleneers, 150 rue des quatre sentiers, B4431 Loncin |Permission= all |other_versions= wikipedia comm | |
| 06:23, 26 May 2006 | 799 × 385 (35 KB) | Mysid(talk | contribs) | Moved some characters slightly down | |
| 11:05, 23 May 2006 | 799 × 385 (35 KB) | Mysid(talk | contribs) | A new version with the AltGr key, suggested by w:User:Gennaro Prota | |
| 06:14, 12 October 2005 | 801 × 373 (24 KB) | Mysid(talk | contribs) | Removed the embedded Arial font. Reduced white borders. | |
| 13:05, 11 October 2005 | 800 × 403 (51 KB) | Mysid(talk | contribs) | A 102-key USEnglish keyboard layout. Drawn by Mysid in CorelDRAW on October 11, 2005. GFDL. |
Licensing[edit]
| Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. |
| This file is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. | |
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| This licensing tag was added to this file as part of the GFDL licensing update. |
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| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment |
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| current | 18:29, 23 December 2018 | 799 × 385 (70 KB) | Euka(talk | contribs) | Seems reverting did not work. Downloaded Azaghal of Belegosts version and reuploaded as plain SVG (i.e. without all the inkscape specific stuff). |
| 18:20, 23 December 2018 | 799 × 385 (66 KB) | Euka(talk | contribs) | Reverted vandalism(?), new version had letters in alphabetical order | |
| 13:03, 21 November 2018 | 799 × 385 (67 KB) | Xtrmn(talk | contribs) | Changed backspace arrow to match style of cursor keys, tab, and enter. Changed endmarker on enter to match the stroke color of the line. | |
| 23:53, 2 January 2011 | 799 × 385 (66 KB) | Azaghal of Belegost(talk | contribs) | Changed backspace arrow to match style of cursor keys, tab, and enter. Changed endmarker on enter to match the stroke color of the line. | |
| 23:47, 2 January 2011 | 799 × 385 (65 KB) | Azaghal of Belegost(talk | contribs) | Fixed arrows on tab and enter and regularized arrows on cursor keys and numpad. | |
| 17:18, 9 February 2008 | 799 × 385 (44 KB) | Ymulleneers(talk | contribs) | {{Information |Description= Qwerty keyboard with system keys |Source= http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Qwerty.svg |Date= 09/02/2008 |Author= Yves Mulleneers, 150 rue des quatre sentiers, B4431 Loncin |Permission= all |other_versions= wikipedia comm | |
| 06:23, 26 May 2006 | 799 × 385 (35 KB) | Mysid(talk | contribs) | Moved some characters slightly down | |
| 11:05, 23 May 2006 | 799 × 385 (35 KB) | Mysid(talk | contribs) | A new version with the AltGr key, suggested by w:User:Gennaro Prota | |
| 06:14, 12 October 2005 | 801 × 373 (24 KB) | Mysid(talk | contribs) | Removed the embedded Arial font. Reduced white borders. | |
| 13:05, 11 October 2005 | 800 × 403 (51 KB) | Mysid(talk | contribs) | A 102-key USEnglish keyboard layout. Drawn by Mysid in CorelDRAW on October 11, 2005. GFDL. |
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