The reason the position of letters on the keyboard

TECHNO - Agan ever asked, why the arrangement of letters in a typewriter keyboard, computer, PDA up to us in the form of "QWERTYUIOP" and so on? Why not be any sequence such as "ABCDEFGH" and so on? Maybe some of agan already know the story, but in case not already know ane Copas agan here.

That said, the keyboard has been created since 1860an by Sholes and Dunsmore. Originally they were made sequentially in alphabetical order. However, gradually with increasing the ability of (custom) user, typing speed becomes faster when the mechanism of the engine while it is still simple. As a result, (line) given to the frequent traffic jams and hinder the work.

Based on their experience, eventually drafted a keyboard made deliberately complicated and inefficient so that the keyboard is not easy JAMMED. Typewriter design was then sold to the Remington to be mass produced in 1873. The arrangement is divided into four rows, the top line of "23456789 -" second line "QWE.TYIUOP", third line "XDFGHJKLM", and the bottom line "AX & CVBN?; R".

Over time, the rapidly evolving technologies and issues that often get stuck keyboard key has been overcome with better mechanical design. A number of alternative keyboard designs also come on the market. One that is quite popular is the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard (DSK) made by August Dvorak in 1936. The design is claimed to be a design more efficient, faster, and egronomis.

QWERTY actually have many drawbacks such as making your left hand overload, especially when writing in English (same thing I felt when writing in Indonesian language). QWERTY also make your pinkie overload. Research shows that the uneven distribution of the letter so that your fingers have to cross over from line to line - when measured finger typists will typically run more than 20 miles per day compared with the DSK is only 1 mile.

Unfortunately, people still refuse to turn away from the design of "QWERTY" although the design is not the best design. Even if technology can solve the key problem of jamming, people stick with the design of "QWERTY" design instead of a more superior. Instead, the QWERTY instead crowned the international standard in 1966.

The same thing occurs in Microsoft Windows. We certainly know that Windows is not the best operating system, whether it be in terms of safety, convenience, performance, until the matter of beauty. However, because the market penetration of Windows is too strong, people got used to using Windows and the operating system to be standardized.

Is not nothing better than Windows? Of course not. But people need to think about it a few times before turning away from these standards. They have to face barriers such as cost, compatibility issues, the learning process, the time factor, and much more. As a result the number of the faithful is much larger than an apostate. This is what makes Windows or QWERTY became the standard - even though they are not the best.

In the scientific world, this phenomenon is described as the concept of path dependency and network externalities. In essence, innovation does not produce outcomes that out of the blue, but it is a development that could be predicted from a has-been. In addition, the value of innovation will be higher when it is used by more people. At a certain stage, the innovation will become the standard used by the public.

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