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In March of 1873, Densmore succeeded in perfecting the machine and had the manufacturing rights with E. Remington and Sons.
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The layout we all know and love as QWERTY was patented by Christopher Latham Sholes and James Densmore when they first started manufacturing typewriters with E. Remington and Sons. Image Source CC0: https://pixabay.com/en/keyboard-qwerty-ubuntu-computer-147827/
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This was a benchmark in history as the commercial viability of typewriters began to catch flames and would continue to skyrocket throughout the 1880s and beyond. Image Source CC2.0:
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These are what we know today as keyboard stickers, this was the beginning of keyboard customisation.
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Manufactures began to offer QWERTY which was then called 'The Universal' as an option to the 'Ideal' keyboards. Due to the rate of production and employers hiring QWERTY typists, QWERTY inevitably dominated all other forms and variations of keyboard layouts.
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Charles Krum made the teletype system became practical for everyday users.
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There were several rival layouts that vied to compete with QWERTY, Dvorak was one of the most successful with some people continuing to use it today, hypothetically it's far more efficient but was still shunned by the majority of typists in favour of QWERTY. Image Source CC0 1.0:
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Data from the typewriter was input into magnetic tape that fed into the computer and printed results.
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Whirlwind Computer could be controlled by its keyboard and was the first computer to have keyboard input demands. Until then, typewriters were not directly interacting with the computer. Image Source labelled free for reuse: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Museum_of_Science,_Boston,_MA_-_IMG_3168.JPG
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IBM created and sold the first recognisable keyboard to what we know today. Image Source CC2.0: https://www.flickr.com/photos/35448539@N00/8406528334
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The HP 95LX Palmtop PC, also known as project Jaguar, was Hewlett Packard's first MS-DOS-based pocket computer or personal digital assistant, introduced in April 1991. The keyboard was inefficient but featured. Image Credit: Kajac123 CC3 licence
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The virtual keyboard wasn't what we know today, instead it used optical-based gestures to navigate and input data into a computer.
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Apple changed the world of soft keyboards with innovative technology that allowed the hit regions of letters to shrink and expand with the mathematical probability of your next press, before that, soft keyboards were not commercially viable due to their inefficiency. Image Source: Miquel C. CC2.0
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