With the printing press and new communication new ways and techniques had to be used to put the information on paper or collect ideas quickly. So thus the keyboard was born, or wait not the keyboard we know today. The typewriter was a machine used to put ink on paper for fast and professional correspondence. The typewriter was a keyboard although somewhat different- it was still similar to the computer keyboard that changed later from alphabetical to a new faster typing pattern (that you see today called the QWERTY). Even knowing we don’t see it as a keyboard typewriters laid the foundation for the technology we use today.

In the first computers video display terminals (the blinking letters on your screen) for short were used for the user to see what they were typing. It helped develop computers and used to program them while text was easier to create, edit and delete. Barbara Blackburn showed that the DVORAK format is better than qwerty and types the fastest in everyday work. She has an average of 170 words per minutes and a top of 212 (wpm) where she set a world record in The Guinness Book of World Records. Barbara demonstrated at Canadian Education Conference how fast and efficient you can type. By the late 1970’s the  electronic keyboard was always paired with a computer.  Indeed, the computer keyboard has a few extra features that  typewriters and such don’t have.

The computer keyboard demonstrated that work could be done quickly and accurately once someone has learned the basic tenants of the console. Without a doubt, the computer has revolutionized typing as well as improved production as needed in all aspects of business.