QWERTY keyboard |
qwerty
1929, from the first six keys on a standard typewriter keyboard, read as though text, from top left. Mechanical typewriter patented 1867; the QWERTY layout itself is said to date to 1887; it is not meant to slow down typists, but to separate the letters in common digraphs (-sh-, -ck-, etc.) to reduce jamming of swing-arms in old-style machines. It actually speeds typing by requiring alternate-hand strokes, which is one reason why the alternative DVORAK keyboard is not appreciably faster. Remnants of the original alphabetic typewriter keyboard remain in the second row of letter keys: FGH-JKL. The Fr. standard was AZERTY; in Ger., QWERTZ;in It., QZERTY.
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American Psychological Association (APA):
qwerty. (n.d.). Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved April 19, 2013, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/qwerty
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qwerty. Dictionary.com. Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/qwerty (accessed: April 19, 2013).
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"qwerty." Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. 19 Apr. 2013. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/qwerty>.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE):
Dictionary.com, "qwerty," in Online Etymology Dictionary. Source location: Douglas Harper, Historian. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/qwerty. Available: http://dictionary.reference.com. Accessed: April 19, 2013.
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In other news, after doing the laundry this evening, we went to Papa John's and picked up a pizza (FREE!). Driving back to the RV park, we saw a blimp flying over San Antonio. We ate outside at our site's picnic table. After we finished eating, the blimp flew right past the RV park. I ran inside, grabbed my camera, and SNAP!; took a photo.
Blimp over San Antonio, Texas. |
Click the photo to enlarge it. You can see the cabin hanging on the bottom side, a U.S. flag flying at the back, and the two lines hanging down from the front are for landing and tying down the blimp. I know, I've been up in one.
When we were kids my dad worked for Goodyear and our family rode over Los Angeles in the Goodyear Blimp. What a thrill! Not many people can say they've done that.
Travel Bug out.
I certainly can't say I've ever been in one, in fact I've never seen one in person only pictures!!
ReplyDeleteThey're very quiet.
DeleteI've got a Q word for you. It's Qwirkle. It's the name of a board game I saw when we worked our 3 weeks at Amazon. You can find it at Target. We like playing the game. It's kind of a mind stimulating game. I think you'd like it!
ReplyDeleteQwirkle...I like it already. We'll look for it. Of course if our paths ever cross we can play it with you.
DeleteYes, and as you may well have discovered whenever you might like to use the computer in a hotel lobby far from home, it can be a challenge to use a non "Qwerty" keyboard. It's amazing what we can get used to without realising it. Then there can be the challenge of just finding the "at" symbol!
ReplyDeleteThat would be a thrill to ride in a blimp. I have seen the Goodyear Blimp a few times but blimps are so rarely seen in general.
ReplyDeleteWe were kids so it was pretty exciting to go up in it. Something so totally different.
DeleteI love to say the word QWERTY !!!
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It is kind of fun. I like the name of the game Qwirkle that Steve and Joan mentioned too.
DeleteI had bee in one of those blimps or dirigible as they call it in CA. We had a tour over San Francisco and Oakland and that was our birthday gift to each other. It was a fun ride.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the QWERTY lesson.
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Hey we saw that blimp over Austin two days ago! I wonder if it's the same one?
ReplyDeleteProbably. There aren't that many blimps around and Austin isn't that far from San Antonio.
DeleteI've seen blimps many times but have not ridden in one.
ReplyDeleteFor a price you probably could if you wanted to.
DeleteJuliet,
ReplyDeleteThank you for stopping by on the A-Z Challenge.
TravelBug-Susan