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August 9, 2005
Art Lebedev is very clever.
(Cross-linked in the daily isolato:)
Art Lebedev debunks the old theory that the distribution of letters on a QWERTY keyboard was intended to slow down the typing process (spare the typing, spoil the machine), and then traces the subsequent development of the cyrillic keyboard. Fascinating nugget: the first keyboards were missing the numerals 0, 1 and 3, to be replaced by the cyrillic letters for O, I (now defunct) and Z respectively. So thrifty!
Posted by michele at August 9, 2005 1:52 PM