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Started by iago, December 11, 2008, 05:03:50 PM

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http://discovermagazine.com/1997/apr/thecurseofqwerty1099/article_view?b_start:int=4&-C=

Or the printer friendly, for everything on one page.

That's a really good story about the history of QWERTY and DVORAK, and calls some other things into question (like the imperial measurements, 60-minute hour, base-10 counting, 26,000,000-character Chinese alphabet, etc).