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means A panel of keys you press to type letters, numbers, and commands into a computer or to play a musical instrument.
from A straightforward English compound of "key" plus "board." The word "key" goes back to Old English "cǣg," meaning something that opens or unlocks — later borrowed for the levers you strike on a musical instrument, perhaps because each one "unlocks" a note. "Keyboard" first named the row of keys on instruments like the harpsichord, organ, and piano, and when typewriters arrived they borrowed the term; computers then inherited it wholesale, dragging the QWERTY layout along for the ride.
- qwerty origin
- Layout designed to slow typists and prevent jams
- clicky cult
- Mechanical switches sell for the sound alone
- hidden home
- Tiny bumps on F and J anchor your fingers
- key count
- Standard full-size has 104 keys
- dvorak rival
- A faster layout almost nobody adopted
qwerty layout — the standard english keyboard layout patented by christopher sholes in 1873
dvorak simplified keyboard — alternative layout designed by august dvorak in 1932 to reduce finger movement
mechanical gaming keyboard — cherry mx switches-based keyboards like corsair k95 and ducky one, popular since early 2000s