Decades before its rediscovery in the Anglophone world, autocomplete was invented for putting Chinese characters into a computer. This is an excerpt from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the ...

Computers are designed top-to-bottom for Latin-language users, but this one-size-fits-all thinking has created decades of difficulty for the rest of the world—particularly China. This story first ...

To understand why modern computer keyboards and smartphone touchscreens utilize the QWERTY layout, one must travel back to the late 1860s during the infancy of mechanical typing technology. In 1868, ...

Ever wondered why your keyboard starts with QWERTY instead of following alphabetical order? The answer goes back to the mechanical typewriters of 19th century.

Charlie has an undergraduate degree in Forensic Psychology and writes on topics from zoology and psychology to herpetology.View full profile Charlie has an undergraduate degree in Forensic Psychology ...