Why QWERTY keyboard: Have you ever wondered why the letters on your computer or laptop keyboard are placed in such a random manner? Why do we get a pattern like QWERTY instead of the simple rhythm of ...

When Bill Buxton worked at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center in the early 1990s, he examined the classic children’s homemade telephones: two cups connected by a taut string. He wondered why that same ...

Before today's digital keyboard, typewriters were used for writing. In the late 19th century, when the first typewriters were being made, there was a big technical problem with them. The letters in ...

The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age. By Thomas Mullaney. MIT Press; 376 pages; $34.95 and £32 The National Chinese Characters Typing Competition is rarely cause for ...