Where Did the QWERTY Keyboard Come From?

Re:Where Did the QWERTY Keyboard Come From? by wruza on Thursday September 07, 2023 @12:02PM (#37420992)

Touch screens are okay when under a thumb. But imagine raising your hand whole day to poke a screen, how disproportional your shoulders would grow and how early you’d become orthopedists regular. But on the bright side, we’d use CLIs and cursor based UIs much more.

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Re:Where Did the QWERTY Keyboard Come From? by somat on Thursday September 07, 2023 @01:47PM (#37422774)

I hate touch screens as much, if not more, than the next guy. But gorilla arm is the stupidest, weakest argument against them.

Think of people who have jobs where they have to work for hours in front of them. the human body is good at this, it does not turn out to be super tiring. It is a made up problem.

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Re:Where Did the QWERTY Keyboard Come From? by wruza on Thursday September 07, 2023 @03:20PM (#37424220)

Do you know any examples of such jobs? I mean the same operational intensity.

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Re:Where Did the QWERTY Keyboard Come From? by somat on Friday September 08, 2023 @03:08AM (#37430466)

mail sorting, engineering drawings, wire termination, assembly line work.

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Re:Where Did the QWERTY Keyboard Come From? by wruza on Friday September 08, 2023 @06:34AM (#37431888)

Also teaching (blackboard).

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