Top 10 Facts About Keyboards

 Top 10 facts about the humble keyboard

• #1] Typing Day is held on "January 8" every year as one week after New Year is a good time to think through and write down plans for the year.
• #2] The first commercially successful typewriter was patented by Sholes, Glidden and Soule "150 years ago in 1868".
• #3] Switch-Based Keyboards Were Invented In the "1970s".
• #4] Backlighting Can Illuminate the Keys.
• #5] The First Switch-Based Keyboards Cost Around "$100".