Have you ever wondered about your Keyboard?

There are a few people whom I have met, have found it fascinating how the keys on the keyboard are totally random and not in the sequence of how we have learned A,B,C,...X,Y,Z. This has also fascinated me when I started learning computers. 

Keyboards were initially designed by an American Inventor Christopher Latham Sholes, though they were initially used in Typewriters. The initial invention was done by Henry Mills in 1714, but it was made commercially successful by Sholes. 

Sholes wanted to type, the numbers on the newspaper and from there, he got the inspiration to design a new machine. Inventions are usually said to be inspired from the past or previous experiences and no matter how hard humans try, there will be a ting of it that will show your experience in the inventions. The first keyboard that was designed by the trio of Sholes, Soule, and Glidden, and was phrased as Literary Piano. It literally resembled a piano. It had black and white keys arranged in 2 rows and there were 2 letters missing 0 and 1 as Sholes thought O and I would do the work. The initial keyboard arrangement was something like this:

3  5  7  9  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z

2  4  6  8  .  A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M 

But this layout was having a lot of problems as, there in the Typewriter, the bars have to go on the page and strike the ink roll and the letter is printed. The bars usually collided when trying to type fast. 

To solve this problem Dvorak invented a new Dvorak Simplified Keyboard or American Simplified Keyboard, which reduces the strain on the fingers. Now I don't want to go in details about this but this continuous evolution was taking place when people were living in the era of Typewriters and I would even say Computers! 

The reason is the whole world spends maximum amount of time on their mobile phones. Now would the same layout should work? The screens of mobile phones are getting bigger but they all are touch screens. This has not made the Dvorak's Simplified Keyboard Simple. We need to think of new ways that can be used to type faster when it comes to a limited size of the mobile screens and added complexity of touch screens, which we can even use it as an advantage. Think on it!