History | Updated: February 25, 2025 | Originally Published: May 3, 2013 The invention’s true origin story has long been the subject of debate. Some argue it was created to prevent typewriter jams, ...

Learning the ABCs was the way most English-speaking Americans began their journey in formal education. We were taught to sing the “Alphabet Song” before we were potty trained. The ABCs ran, in order, ...

Could the layout of letters on a keyboard be shaping how we feel about certain words? It's long been thought that how a word sounds -- its very phonemes -- can be related in some ways to what that ...

Last month, NPR asked listeners and readers and a Harvard professor what technologies have stuck around a little too long. He's talking about the QWERTY layout — in use since the earliest typewriters.

Fact of the day: the QWERTY keyboard is bad. It does not provide the best way to type. We've known this for a while, and yet we're still using it; the QWERTY keyboard, developed in 1868, has somehow ...

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Following its introduction in 1873, QWERTY became the most popular keyboard layout. While it was designed to prevent typewriter typebars from jamming, its longevity beyond the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years ...

If you're a geek of a certain age, you probably had some kind of phone with a physical keyboard. For me, it was the BlackBerry Tour. For my younger sister, it was the magnificently chunky Motorola ...

On The Vergecast: one man’s quest to build a better keyboard, AI’s future at Microsoft, and all the thumbs on Netflix. On The Vergecast: one man’s quest to build a better keyboard, AI’s future at ...