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VO: Which one do you think came �rst?

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ANIMATED KEYBOARD APPEARS

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VO:The Keyboard

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ANIMATED COMPUTER APPEARS

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VO: Or The Computer

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ZOOM OUT AND THE TYPEWRITTER APPEARS FROM THE BACK OF COMPUTER

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TYPEWRITTER ANIMATION AND SOUND EFFECTS

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VO: The answer may surprise you. The keyboard beat personal computers by a whopping 100 years

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TYPEWRITTER ANIMATION AND SOUND EFFECTS

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ZOOM OUT AND THE COMPUTER APPEARS FROM THE BACK OF TYPEWRITTER

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TYPEWRTTER MOVE TO LEFT AND THE TYPO MOVE DOWN

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VO: The �rst personal computer was created about forty years ago,

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ANIMATED KEYBOARD APPEARS

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VO: but the keyboard has been around for even one hundred years longer.

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KEYBOARD TRANSFORM INTO FACE AND THE TYPO CHANGES

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VO: The �rst QWERTY keyboard was designed by an American inventor, Christopher Latham Sholes,

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ANIMATED TYPEWRITTER APPEARS,SOUND EFFECTS

VO: as the part of the �rst practical typewriter in eighteen sixty seven.

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VO: That is just two years after the end of the civil war.

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18671861 1865

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VO: A weapons manufacturer named E. Remington and Sons was looking for new ways to make money after the war.

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BANNER FELL DOWN AND THE TYPEWRITTER APPEARS

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VO: They purchased the �rst typewriter...

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VO: and began selling it to the public on July �rst, Eighteen Seventy Four.

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VO: The QWERTY keyboard was born

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Q,W,E,R,T,Y ARE HIGHLIGHTED ON THE KEYBOARD

VO: The name QWERTY comes from the placement of the �rst six keys on the keyboard.

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VO: The order of the keys looks like a mess, as if someone jumbled them together during a game of scrabble.

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VO: Although scrabble wasn't invented for another 80 years,

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VO: but that's a di�erent story.

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VO: In fact, the QWERTY layout was very carefully designed

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ANIMATED TYPEWRITTER APPEARS,SOUND EFFECTS

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VO: to prevent the mechanical parts from jamming together

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PARTS BREAKS, SOUND EFFECTS

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ZOOM INTO THE TYPEWRITTER TO SHOW THE MECHANISM

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ZOOM OUT

VO: Typewriters, unlike modern keyboards, use large mechanical parts to press ink down on paper.

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HIGHLIGHT THE KEYS A,S ON THE KEYBOARD. ZOOM IN AGAIN TO SHOW THE JAMMED PARTS

VO: If someone pressed down keys that were next to each other on the keyboard,

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VO: the parts would sometimes get jammed.

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ZOOM OUT TO SHOW THE LAPTOP AND SMART PHONE

VO: Jamming is no longer an issue today

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VO: because modern devices do not have the same clunky mechanical parts

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VO: More recently some inventors have designed new clever keyboard layouts such as DVORAK

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KEYS CHANGE THEIR POSITION

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VO: and Colemak

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KEYS CHANGE THEIR POSITION AND THE MAP APPEARS

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VO: Yet, the QWERTY remains the most popular keyboard in English speaking countries.

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