For a long time, I believed the story that they QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typing, because typing too fast would cause jams on old typewriters, but apparently it isn’t true.

Skip to 3:00 for the part that talks about this.

  • haloduder@thelemmy.club
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    1 day ago

    It’s another thing we can blame greed and consumerism for.

    People only make thumbnails this way because ‘the data’ has shown it’s what makes channels more money.