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History of the QWERTY Keyboard

As children grow up they have to face quite a few disappointments in life. They learn that pixies, the tooth fairy, and that other guy in the red suit don’t exist. They discover that green vegetables are not merely a garnish; and they encounter the QWERTY keyboard.

The child puts in a great deal of effort going through the daily positive brainwashing process of learning the letters of the alphabet; a-for-apple, b-for-ball, c-for-cat… until finally all twenty-six are imprinted in his or her mind in the correct order and a world of reading and writing awaits. A lot of the latter part of this world will be explored using word processing packages such as Microsoft Word, and children these days are introduced to these programs at an early age.

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