For a long time, I believed the story that they QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typing, because typing too fast would cause jams on old typewriters, but apparently it isn’t true.
Skip to 3:00 for the part that talks about this.
For a long time, I believed the story that they QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typing, because typing too fast would cause jams on old typewriters, but apparently it isn’t true.
Skip to 3:00 for the part that talks about this.
TLDW: it was maybe designed to make translation from Morse code easier, and then a bunch of letters were randomly placed.