Learning the ABCs was the way most English-speaking Americans began their journey in formal education. We were taught to sing the “Alphabet Song” before we were potty trained. The ABCs ran, in order, ...

Back in 1896, the QWERTY keyboard layout was created to increase typing speed, but for a reason that is no longer valid on today's computers. The first typing machines had keyboards with an ...

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Take a look at your keyboard for a second. Notice how the letters jump around like a secret code — Q, W, E, R, T, Y. It is ...

Excerpted from New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything, written by Graham Lawton and illustrated by Jennifer Daniel. Technology often contributes new words to the English language: television ...

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.

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Following its introduction in 1873, QWERTY became the most popular keyboard layout. While it was designed to prevent typewriter typebars from jamming, its longevity beyond the ...

The selection was rather limited last year for people who wanted to purchase a phone-enabled mobile device with a QWERTY thumb keyboard. You had the ever popular RIM BlackBerry models targeted to the ...