CNNs The Story Behind QWERTY describes the origins of the QWERTY keyboard and why it is still the standard on computer keyboards today..

Reflecting to my intermediate school typing class (done on electric typewriters, not computers) I remember wondering why the keyboard wasnt set up in alphabetical order. When my five-year-old asked me the same concern, I was just recently reminded of that. I knew that the answer was related to the frequency of use of particular letters and likewise the early constraints of typewriter keyboard configurations. However to get a much better answer I turned to YouTube where I knew I had seen a video on the topic not that long earlier..