It is because the layout was used to slow people down when manual typewriters were first introduced. The layout is designed to slow typists down. There were various layouts tried including alphabetical and more logical layouts with vowels together etc.
The US standard layout has symbols in deffierent places. The French layout is AZERTY and requires the use of shift to generate numbers as those keys are used for accented letters like é. There are many layouts still due to the multitude of languages and alphabets.
2007-08-31 00:54:17
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answered by MPatrinos 3
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It's a QWERTY keyboard, designed t make it easier to use the keys that are used most often.
Interestingly, the word typewriter is the longest word you can type using only the top row of keys, this is said to have been designed this way to make the old typewriter sales guys sell them easier.
2007-08-31 00:46:04
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answered by japiecrox 3
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Because when keyboards where invented they were made for type writers and they needed to spread the keys out so you didn't get stuck together.
a bit of trivia for you, in France they start azerty!
PS, can you make your little cartoon face a bit more cheerful please? I keep on seeing it and thinking 'oh what a miserable cow she is!' I'm sure your not a miserable cow really!
2007-08-31 00:49:40
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answered by Dunk 3
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Ancient history. Typewriters were arranged that way to slow down fast typists.
2007-08-31 00:44:51
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answered by Computer Guy 7
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Because it's a standard typewriter which is universal.
2007-08-31 00:50:03
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answered by dancerfromparis 2
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there oredered where ur fingers can most conviently get to them...
2007-08-31 01:11:42
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answered by 恒健 4
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