OnMilwaukee is a media sponsor of QWERTYFEST MKE. QWERTYFEST MKE is a three-day festival that celebrates the invention of the typewriter in Milwaukee 150+ years ago. This year, it takes place Friday, ...

It is honestly hard to believe how good we QWERTY lovers used to have it. There was a time when the consumer mobile phone market was bursting at the seams with devices that proudly featured a physical ...

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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, ...

Back in 1896, the QWERTY keyboard layout was created to increase typing speed, but for a reason that is no longer valid on today's computers. The first typing machines had keyboards with an ...

The QWERTY keyboard has puzzled many since its invention in the 1870s, but there's indeed a method to its seemingly random configuration. Initially featuring an alphabetical setup, newspaper editor ...

It has been around since the 1870s - but many people still have no idea why we use QWERTY keyboards. Originally, early typewriters used an alphabetical arrangement but newspaper editor Christopher ...

Decades before its rediscovery in the Anglophone world, autocomplete was invented for putting Chinese characters into a computer. This is an excerpt from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the ...

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 ...

Role-playing games mean a lot of different things to different people. For some, playing an RPG means sitting around a table, rolling dice and telling stories with friends. For others, top RPG games ...

The Game Awards 2023 has ended, but not before it treated us to a celebration of the past and future of the world of gaming. While The Game Awards was filled with big reveals and news about upcoming ...

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