Did you know the QWERTY layout was made to slow you down? 😳

Why your keyboard starts with QWERTY?

not ABC?

Its story started over 150 years ago not with computers, but with jam-prone typewriters.

In the 1870s, a man named Christopher Latham Sholes an American inventor and newspaper editor in the 1800s co-invented the first commercially successful typewriter.

Typing too fast made the keys jammed.

So Sholes came up with a clever idea

So what did he do?

He rearranged the letters on the keyboard to slow people down.

then Boom

 QWERTY keyboard layout was born!

It wasn’t made to help you type faster…

It was made to SLOW you down and to prevent jams.

Over time, QWERTY became the standard.

Schools taught it. Offices used it.

And even when better layouts like Dvorak came along but people just stuck with QWERTY.

Why?

Because by then, the world had already used the QWERTY.

And changing it felt like teaching everyone a new language.

So the next time you type to message someone…

Remember you're using a keyboard designed to slow you down.

that’s the beauty of stories hidden in plain sight.

Fun Fact:

the guy who invented it wasn’t even a skilled typist but his invention taught the world how to type.

“Weird history but true!