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Topic: QWERTY

An illustration of the Sholes, Glidden and Soulé typewriter
Technology
Tuesday, 6/23, 02:24 PM

How QWERTY conquered the keyboard, and why the myths won't die

  • On 23 June 1868, a Wisconsin printer named Christopher Latham Sholes and two collaborators won a US patent for an early typewriter.
  • The strange six-letter sequence at the top-left of that machine's keyboard is still under your fingers today — and the popular story of how it got there is largely wrong.

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