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.

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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    7 hours ago

    You can pry Colemak from my cold dead hands

    Just don’t ask me to type on somebody else’s computer, because I physically cannot. I have to hunt and peck.