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TIL the QWERTY keyboard was not designed to intentionally slow down typing

For a long time, I believed the story that they QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typing, because typing too fast would cause jams on old typewriters, but apparently it isn't true.

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  • TLDW: it was maybe designed to make translation from Morse code easier, and then a bunch of letters were randomly placed.

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