Some benefits of a smaller keyboard are obvious, but I realized that the greatest impact only comes after you've used one for ...

Inspired by Randall Munroe's xkcd comic "Up Goer Five," where rocket science is explained using only the 1,000 most common ...

A 104-key keyboard (U.S. layout) that is the de facto standard keyboard included with new desktop PCs. Introduced in 1995, the Windows keyboard superseded the 101-key Enhanced keyboard and added ...

PC keyboards also work on the Mac. Since the IBM PC debuted in 1981, there have been four standard keyboard layouts, each one rearranging commonly used keys that annoy users to this day.

The location of the grave/tilde key (~) typically changes with the computer's language settings, but on US/UK QWERTY keyboards, it is usually located above the Tab key, below the Esc key ...

Even then, the standard keyboard layout can be substantially limiting ... advantages over a standard QWERTY design. They have big keys, the keys can be labeled, and the keys can be ordered ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. We don't need standard keyboards anymore — they're a vestige of the past. If we can type on ...