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Why does keyboard keys are random and not in alphabetical order?
I'm curious about something. Why are keyboard keys placed in such a seemingly random order instead of being alphabetically organized?
That's a great question. The keyboards we use today were actually designed in the 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes. At the time, the early typewriters had keys arranged in alphabetical order, which caused the letters to jam together. So, Sholes rearranged the keys to separate commonly used letter pairs to prevent jamming.