qwerty

Definition: Design of keyboard dating from beginning of twentieth century designed to slow down typists' fingers to prevent the striker keys of a typewriter from jamming but still standard in English-speaking world. * Derived from sequence of first row of letters. * Proven time and again to be the most inefficient layaout imaginable, but still it hangs on in there as English-speaking-world standard.

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