The History of keyboarding

By 24stewag

  • Discovery

    Discovery
    One of the first typewriter makers, C.L. Sholes, also designed the keyboard layout which is still in use today, At first, he used an alphabetic layout, but it transpired that letter combinations commonly encountered in English. The first typewriter was made in 1868.

  • Dvorak's Keyboard

    Dvorak's Keyboard
    The most significant competitor to the standard QWERTY layout appeared a long time ago in 1932. The reason for Dvorak's design is the positioning of the most commonly used letters in the home row, vowels on the left and consonants on the right

  • Microcomputers

    Microcomputers
    In 1962 the Teletype Corporation ships the model 33 keyboard, which becomes the input mechanism on early microcomputers. Previously computer users communicated with the computer with punched cards.

  • Introduce specialkeys

    Introduce specialkeys
    In 1971 the I.B.M 3720 display terminal, which has the first widely used screen-oriented mainframe keyboard, introduces the keys Enter, Ins, Del, Home, Page Up, End which was called EOF at the time and the arrow keys

  • Enhanced keyboards

    Enhanced keyboards
    In 1981 they added a keyboard that had 83 keys and had 10 mainframe function keys and then 3 years later in 1984 they added more keys and it was a 101-key keyboard that could be used across all its platforms and systems.

  • Natural keyboard

    Natural keyboard
    in 1994 in anticipation of Windows 95, Microsoft introduced the Natural keyboard, which has three extra keys that enable the use of the operating system without a mouse

  • early 2000's keyboards

    early 2000's keyboards
    In the early 2000s that is when the keyboards started to really look like the ones we have today and are pretty basic and are pretty much the same idea as the first Microsoft keyboard but it is straight but it does the same thing as it

  • Keyboards today

    Keyboards today
    Keyboards now come in all different sizes and different uses for the computer such as a gaming computer which would not have necessarily have the number pad on the side and it would be a lot more high quality then what you would see in an office which would be more traditional and usually have a number pad because thats what they use a lot unlike someone who is playing games and using the keyboard just for that.