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Why isn't the keyboard in alphabetical order?

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Why isn't the keyboard in alphabetical order?

Because the QWERTY layout was frozen in 1873 on the first commercial mechanical typewriters, where some letters had to be kept apart so that the type bars wouldn't jam. The technical need vanished a century ago, but the muscle memory of millions of fingers didn't.

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