{"id":115,"date":"2005-10-27T07:37:52","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T13:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2005-10-27T07:37:52","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T13:37:52","slug":"qwerty-query","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/27\/qwerty-query\/","title":{"rendered":"QWERTY Query"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder why the letters on your computer keyboard (left over from typewriter keyboards) are laid-out in such an awkward fashion?&#8230;&#8230;. Well, to you right-handers anyway (I&#8217;m left-handed)&#8230;&#8230;..  Here&#8217;s why&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typists by putting the most frequently typed letters under control of the weakest felt-hand fingers&#8230;&#8230;  The nineteenth-century machines weren&#8217;t mechanically trustworthy enough to keep up with fast typists&#8230;..  Now word processors can keep-up with the fastest typist, but the old slow-down keyboard arrangement remains the same because no one wants to learn a new one&#8230;&#8230;.  <\/p>\n<p>A person could get rich designing a faster layout for the keyboard&#8230;&#8230;..  Or could they?&#8230;&#8230;.  I probably wouldn&#8217;t buy it&#8230;.. I&#8217;m too used to the existing layout and too set in my ways&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Tells you something about human nature and our resistance to any kind of change, which seems to make history repeat itself over and over again no matter how much techno-advancement is made&#8230;&#8230;.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder why the letters on your computer keyboard (left over from typewriter keyboards) are laid-out in such an awkward fashion?&#8230;&#8230;. Well, to you right-handers anyway (I&#8217;m left-handed)&#8230;&#8230;.. Here&#8217;s why&#8230;&#8230;. The QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typists by putting the most frequently typed letters under control of the weakest felt-hand fingers&#8230;&#8230; The nineteenth-century [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}