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Why isn't your keyboard in alphabetical order?

Because of a machine dead for a century.

1873.

The first typewriters have a real problem.

Two neighboring typebars, struck one right after the other… they jam.

Christopher Sholes spends years pulling his keys apart.

Out of that tinkering comes QWERTY.

And Remington freezes it, for good.

The typebars vanished a century ago.

What's frozen now isn't the machines — it's your fingers.