A brief history of keyboards!
summary
Finds a QWERTY keyboard 150 years ago and traces exact evidence through patent filings by Lam schols and subsequent prototypes, shows Remington taking the design into production, and asserts that offering free touch typing classes locked users into that layout. Documents concrete iterations: an Underwood No. 5 adding lowercase with a shift mechanism, IBM electric adding a shift lock and return key, the Teletype Model 33 adding Control and Escape, then the rise of function keys and miniaturization into today’s swipe and emoji keyboards.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00History of everyday tech
- 1:19Early typewriter prototypes
- 2:25Piano-inspired keyboard design
- 3:49QWERTY layout testing
- 4:52Remington’s QWERTY production
- 5:13Touch typing and QWERTY lock-in
- 5:54Typewriter evolution
- 7:19IBM electric typewriter
- 8:22Teletypewriters and control keys
- 9:25From mainframes to personal computers and keyboards
- 9:45Modern keyboard methods
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