9.12.2006

Qwerty

I am now absolutely convinced that the "qwerty" style keyboard is actually some elaborate code system. Whoever invented it arranged the letters in a particular way so that you have to learn a custom-tailored typing method, but these diabolical geniuses arranged the letters in such a way that if you move your hands to different places on the keyboard, you would be able to type out some kind of Nazi code.

I have yet to discover what the hand placement for the code is, and I'm afraid that without the original encoded message to translate, I won't be able to figure it out. So we are almost definitely in the hands of some clandestine, evil organization that is operating right beneath our noses, and there is nothing we can do about it.

1 comment:

paal said...

qwerty is designed to slow down your typing by placing the most used keys on the left side. this was all so that typewriters would not get clogged by extremely fast typist, the majority of whom would likely favor their right hand.

the navy developed dvorak to be optimized for typing efficiency. one of my idiot friends, a kid who is even more obsessed than i am with efficiency scrapped qwerty for dvorak a few years ago.

i hate his keyboard.

can you be xenophobic towards an interface device?