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A brief history of the QWERTY keyboard - CNET

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On July 1, 1874, the Remington typewriter hit the market, with the earliest version of what would become the keyboard layout we still use today.

The original 1873 Sholes and Glidden typewriter. Getty Images/Science Source There’s an old legend about the QWERTY keyboard, dating back to at least 1977 : It “probably would have been chosen if the objective was to find the least efficient…character arrangement.” In fact, the layout was designed to help people type faster. The QWERTY layout is attributed to an American inventor named Christopher Latham Sholes , and it made its debut in its earliest form on July 1, 1874 — 142 years ago today. Sholes had been for some years developing the typewriter, filing a pate

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