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On an educated hunch, we typed "qwerty" in the Yahoo! search box, and found the QWERTY Connection in our bustling Typewriter Collecting category. The Sholes & Glidden Type Writer, the first of its kind, was introduced to an unsuspecting public by the Remington family of gunmakers in 1874. The Sholes & Glidden was a heavy, bulky, barely functional machine that jammed in a strong breeze. As a result, its puzzling new QWERTY keyboard was designed to be difficult. That's right -- the slower you typed, the less chance that the keyboard
spokes (not the official term) would slam into one another as they rushed towards the page. As the QWERTY Connection tells us, the keyboard we use today is a "paragon of inefficiency." While other keyboard arrangements have been proposed, ones that actually make it easier to type, they've generally met the same fate as Esperanto.
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