This is what happens when your kids think your dana doesn't work anymore, and also discover that the keys pop off easily. As Stuart said, "I don't see why the guy made the letters on the keyboard out of order in the first place."
-- SJ
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Kid Logic
Look closely at this keyboard. Notice anything?
This is what happens when your kids think your dana doesn't work anymore, and also discover that the keys pop off easily. As Stuart said, "I don't see why the guy made the letters on the keyboard out of order in the first place."
-- SJ
This is what happens when your kids think your dana doesn't work anymore, and also discover that the keys pop off easily. As Stuart said, "I don't see why the guy made the letters on the keyboard out of order in the first place."
-- SJ
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6 comments:
does your dana really not work? that is cute a pain but cute
Dear Stuart,
Once upon a time, very long ago, before your dad and I were even born, they had these interesting contraptions called typewriters. Unlike computers, these devices actually required levers to fly up and hit an ink ribbon and press it to the page to make the letter.
In the 1860s, a man named Christopher Latham Sholes invented the first typewriter, and he used your idea, the alphabetical layout. However, he found that whenever two letters located next to each other were pressed in rapid succession, the keys jammed. In order to avoid this, he worked for five years to perfect a layout that avoided having common letter pairs located in the same area. Thus, S and T are separated, among many others. While this layout is no longer needed due to advanced technology, it has endured because it is hard to learn a new layout, at least for us humans.
One of our law school classmates (who later dropped out) used an alternative called the Dvorak keyboard, which is much more logical.
I am informed that you can have your computer switch to a Dvorak layout by changing a setting. You might see if your parents have an extra one laying around for you to re-label.
The Dvorak layout puts the most common letters on the home row - about 70 of all letters used (by frequency) are therefore close at hand.
Have fun!
Here is the link for information about the Dvorak keyboard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard
I intend to check out the Dvorak link to see what a better keyboard looks like.
Glad that your kids know how to improooove things.
Makes sense to Nana, but would have to relearn a lot!!
I think for April Fools' Day I'm going to reset all keyboards to Dvorak . . .
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