Learning the ABCs was the way most English-speaking Americans began their journey in formal education. We were taught to sing the “Alphabet Song” before we were potty trained. The ABCs ran, in order, ...

It all started when typewriters were invented and heralded as a new way to write—one that would make it faster and easier to read. In the 1870s, American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes was working ...

We use the keyboards we use simply because they’re the ones we’ve always used. Is this the most efficient layout of letters? Hephzibah Anderson takes a look. They may not be quite as superstitious as ...