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The first keyboard layout was designed by someone who hated fast typing. Petty ergonomics.

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The QWERTY layout was designed by Christopher Latham Sholes in the 1870s for typewriters. A popular story says it was designed to slow typists, but this is disputed, and some historians say it was meant to prevent jams.

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