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99pi Presents The Next Billion Users

99% Invisible

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This chapter explores the historical development of the QWERTY keyboard, revealing how its initial design was a solution to mechanical issues in typewriters. It also addresses the limitations of current keyboard layouts for Indian languages and the necessity for improved input methods for better linguistic representation.

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