The QWERTY keyboard was invented by Christopher Latham Sholes in the 1870s – and has stayed around ever since. Today, QWERTY's widespread adoption and legacy ensure its dominance, even in the face of ...

It's rare these days to see anyone pounding away on an old manual Royal or Smith-Corona. But one element of those machines lives on, and is used constantly in daily life. Just as Milwaukee is the ...

In the 1870s, Christopher Latham Sholes and his collaborators reimagined the typewriter keyboard to solve a mechanical flaw that plagued early machines. Their QWERTY layout, designed to prevent ...

The QWERTY keyboard layout has been around since the 19th century. Aren't there other arrangements better fit for the computer age? They vary from... QWERTY Traveled From Typewriter To iPhone, But ...

I’ve used Google’s Gboard keyboard on my Android phone for years, but I stumbled across an unusual alternative, which intrigued me because it promised to make typing on a phone screen fast by using ...

Decades before its rediscovery in the Anglophone world, autocomplete was invented for putting Chinese characters into a computer. This is an excerpt from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the ...

It's that time of year when kids go back to school and people start to think of ways to stay connected and in touch. If your kids are like mine, text messaging is used 90% of the time compared to ...

A few years back I was at a convention somewhere and I stumbled into Palm's booth. They were showcasing a small half-qwerty keyboard. I was instantly in love, but didn't have the $$$ to drop on ...