Tech History Part 1: A QWERTY Story and Whether the Dvorak Layout is Actually Superior

The BrainFood Show

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History, Education

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2018

⏱️ 83 minutes

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In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start by looking at a quick fact surrounding what Elton John, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Genesis had to do with Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Next we discuss our sponsor for this episode, Backblaze. Seriously, one of Simon and I’s favorite services and is ridiculously cheap and easy to setup. Just install and it does the rest making sure all your hard drives and pictures and all that are always automatically backed up in an extremely secure way for about the price of a cup of coffee. Go check them out: https://www.backblaze.com/brainfood After the sponsor spot, we then jump into the main part of the show on how the QWERTY keyboard came to be. We also dig into whether the Dvorak keyboard layout is actually superior to QWERTY or if that’s just something people say. Next up we look at who really invented the mouse and how it languished in obscurity for quite some time before Steve Jobs came along. A few links for this episode: The Mother of All Demos (1968) Remington #2 Canadian First Mouse First Handheld Mouse On another note, if you could do us a huge favor and rate and review this show in whatever podcasting platform you’re using (including hopefully giving us some feedback related to the new format), we would be extremely grateful. Thanks! (You can also discuss this episode and view references on The BrainFood Show forum here.) Don’t miss future episodes of this podcast, subscribe here: iTunes | Spotify | Google Play Music | Stitcher | RSS/XML You can also find more episodes by going here: The BrainFood Show The post Tech History Part 1: A QWERTY Story and Whether the Dvorak Layout is Actually Superior appeared first on Today I Found Out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to you another episode of the Brain Food podcast.
0:04.8	Dave and and I, just before we hit record, we're having a chat about the very
0:08.8	catchy title that we've currently got for this episode.
0:11.8	Inventing the keyboard and mouse.
0:14.6	Keep listening guys, because this is going to be a thriller.
0:17.0	No, seriously.
0:18.0	It is super interesting, but we do need to come up
0:20.1	with a better title by the time this goes to air because definitely yeah inventing the
0:24.2	keyboard a mouse is is not super catchy to be fair this was the third iteration of
0:31.1	topic that I was going for this week and the others just needed a lot more research
0:34.8	so that I went to this and then this one needed a lot more research so I was kind of done coming
0:38.1	up with good titles at that point.
0:40.1	It's okay well we'll have something by by next week or whenever this ends up going out.
0:45.2	I know we recorded a couple of days ago so we're getting some in the bank which is nice
0:49.6	it's good to be ahead. I feel like I've been I don don't know, we're coming up on the end of September on our
0:55.3	YouTube channel. It's the advertiser time. Like the end of the month you've got to meet those
1:00.3	deadlines. It's a pretty intense time.
1:03.8	So what have we got coming up then?
1:05.2	You know, I assume those two that you gave up on
1:07.2	are gonna be subsequent episodes, right?
1:10.1	They'll circle back, but it's just unfortunate
1:12.4	because I wanted to kind of go in order on the things and this is going to be a little bit out of order but that's all right.
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