05-25-2007, 04:14 AM
05-25-2007, 04:50 AM
It started in the age of typewriters. Original keyboards were in alphabetical order and writers were getting so fast at typing that the typewriters would constantly jam, so they changed the keyboard layout and it stuck through the age of computers.
05-25-2007, 05:31 AM
See the article below, it largely has to do with the migration from typewriters which group commonly related keys close together in a memorizable pattern.
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org