Why aren the letters on a keyboard in alphabetical order?
This goes back to the original manual typewriters. The keys were originally arranged based on most common letter usage, but people typed so fast the mechanical character arms would get stuck together. So the keys were placed in positions to actually slow people down. The Dvorak keyboard came out in probably the 80s and is based on the most common letter usage idea again now that people do electronic word processing rather than “typing”. The QWERTY keyboard layout was devised and created in the 1860s by the creator of the first modern typewriter, Christopher Sholes, a newspaper editor who lived in Milwaukee. Originally, the characters on the typewriters he invented were arranged alphabetically, set on the end of a metal bar which struck the paper when its key was pressed. However, once an operator had learned to type at speed, the bars attached to letters that lay close together on the keyboard became entangled with one another, forcing the typist to manually unstick the typebars, and a
