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Keyboards & Command Line Interfaces: Crash Course Computer S
08/02/2017 | 11m 23s
| Video has closed captioning.
Today, we are going to start our discussion on user experience. We've talked a lot in this series about how computers move data around within the computer, but not so much about our role in the process. So today, we're going to look at our earliest form of interaction through keyboards. We'll talk about how the keyboard got its qwerty layout, and then we'll track its evolution in electronic typewr