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The "QWERTY" keyboard (named for the first 6 letters on the top row) was developed to slow down typists on old manual typewriters. With a regular ABCDE.. keyboard setup they would type too fast and cause the keys to jam. With the QWERTY setup they typed slower and prevented key jams. It became the accepted standard and persists even after electric typewriters & computers made the original reason irrelevant.

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