why do keyboards lay out the numbers 1-9 & 0 instead of 0-9? It predates Benford’s law. And it looks like early variants of QWERTY didn’t even have 0 or 1 (you used O(oh) and I(eye) instead)
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Replying to @the_zenspider
You answered your question! :·) It started with 2–9. 0 followed first (not sure why), 1 much later. It was weird to add 0 before 2 (and there wasn’t enough space anyway), so it was added after 9. Note that Hungarian keyboard has 0 on the right (left) side.
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Replying to @mwichary @the_zenspider
Here are some examples of 2–0 retrofitted to add 1 (some people even requested this, as their fingers were used to 2 being between Q and W, and adding 1 would require shifting the whole row).pic.twitter.com/KySFNUmYnp
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Replying to @mwichary @the_zenspider
And here’s a PLATO keyboard (an early computer), and a Hungarian keyboard.pic.twitter.com/2Pm35XB4fi
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Replying to @mwichary @the_zenspider
Here’s a keyboard with retrofitted zero.pic.twitter.com/IBwHC0zSPe
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And lastly, things got kinda weird in other languages!pic.twitter.com/fa67SR1NwT
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