In this episode of the Hardware Podcast, David Cranor and I talk with Marcin Wichary, design lead and typographer at Medium. Wichary is an authority on the history of keyboards, and he’s traced their development from an early period of enormous variation (when each manufacturer used to arrange arrow keys in a different way) through today’s relative stability.

Marcin Wichary on the Evolution of the Keyboard

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Marcin Wichary on the Evolution of the Keyboard

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