Saturday 6 February 2010

LESS

why oh why? 
there's no combination of words 
I could put on the back of a postcard

lagu di atas tiada kaitan dengan tajuk entri.

anda tahu kenapa keyboard computer @ papan kekunci direka QWERTY...etc?
does anyone know why? does anyone ever think why? 
tidak ada kannnn.
something to do with how much letters are used?
nooooooooo 
(the longest noooo - chinese people; if you watched peter russel,u know it)
ok2.back to the topic.

It is not really accurate that the keys on a QWERTY keyboard are set out based on how much letters are used.
It is an old format that dates back to the 1870's. It was created by a gentleman named Christopher Latham Scholes, a newspaper editor. NOT PAUL SCHOLES'S great grandfather or PAUL SMITH.
He sought to arrange a keyboard in a way that keys on a typewriter keyboard would not jam. Typewriter letters were arranged on big metal bars that would jam up on early models because they would strike against each other if they were in close proximity to each other.
hm,anda semua penah ke guna typewriter?
im sure the answer is noooooo jugak. aku pernah zaman kecik kecik dulu.
tap tap tap tap bunyi dalam bilik sorang sorang.
ya,dah mula melalut sikit. 
so,to that end, Scholes actually arranged the keys based on LESS probable word combinations, not most probable.
After many years, people got so used to the QWERTY keyboard that we have yet to change over from it, although superior typing models have been introduced.

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