Comments on: On QWERTY http://www.bluespot.dk/2006/01/29/on-qwerty/ Sun, 11 Jul 2010 05:26:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Brian Larsen http://www.bluespot.dk/2006/01/29/on-qwerty/comment-page-1/#comment-210 Brian Larsen Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:52:48 +0000 http://www.bluespot.dk/2006/01/29/on-qwerty/#comment-210 Most people, including the writers of the mentioned book, think it was because of network effects. In fact the quotation is taken from a chapter about network effects. The more common the QWERTY keyboard became, the more valuable did it get to learn how to use it. The switching costs (time) are relatively big in learning how to use a new keyboard layout. But my theory is that this keyboard layout actually drove people mad. I am convinced that if you look at the keys for a long time, only the letters that spell the date of your death will appear to you. And this will eventually drive you mad. I am sure that such people as Charles Manson and several US postal workers used this type of keyboard. I think Da Vinci has laid out several clues about this in his paintings. And I am trying to fit Scientology to the theory somehow, but it still needs some works. Most people, including the writers of the mentioned book, think it was because of network effects. In fact the quotation is taken from a chapter about network effects. The more common the QWERTY keyboard became, the more valuable did it get to learn how to use it. The switching costs (time) are relatively big in learning how to use a new keyboard layout.

But my theory is that this keyboard layout actually drove people mad. I am convinced that if you look at the keys for a long time, only the letters that spell the date of your death will appear to you. And this will eventually drive you mad. I am sure that such people as Charles Manson and several US postal workers used this type of keyboard. I think Da Vinci has laid out several clues about this in his paintings. And I am trying to fit Scientology to the theory somehow, but it still needs some works.

]]> By: Luffe http://www.bluespot.dk/2006/01/29/on-qwerty/comment-page-1/#comment-209 Luffe Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:10:35 +0000 http://www.bluespot.dk/2006/01/29/on-qwerty/#comment-209 Interesting subject, wasnt there some guy who made an alternative keyboard? I think his name was dvorack, it was apperently a more effecient version, but it never succeded in pushing the qwerty type out of the market, do you know why?? Interesting subject, wasnt there some guy who made an alternative keyboard? I think his name was dvorack, it was apperently a more effecient version, but it never succeded in pushing the qwerty type out of the market, do you know why??

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