People have shared their surprise after learning the UK and US have different keyboard layouts - and many have been ...

History | Updated: February 25, 2025 | Originally Published: May 3, 2013 The invention’s true origin story has long been the subject of debate. Some argue it was created to prevent typewriter jams, ...

11:29, Wed, Sep 4, 2024 Updated: 11:32, Wed, Sep 4, 2024 It has been around since the 1870s - but many people still have no idea why we use QWERTY keyboards. Originally, early typewriters used an ...

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Could the layout of letters on a keyboard be shaping how we feel about certain words? It's long been thought that how a word sounds -- its very phonemes -- can be related in some ways to what that ...

Today's trivia question: Why are the letters on a computer keyboard arranged in such a strange order? The 21st century keyboard is based on 19th century technology. When the computer's ancestor, the ...

Last month, NPR asked listeners and readers and a Harvard professor what technologies have stuck around a little too long. He's talking about the QWERTY layout — in use since the earliest typewriters.