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Why is the ketboard calledQWERTY

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Because it goes in that order. The first letter on the keyboard is Q, and then W and so on. Usually there is a setting on phones to change that, so it goes in ABC order instead of the regular QWERTY order.
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I believe it is because the arrangement of the first six letters in the top alphabet row of a standard keyboard QWERTY goes way back. The layout was created in 1873 when Christopher Latham Sholes made improvements to his earlier typewriter models in order to design a quicker and more efficient typewriter for E. Remington and Sons.
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