Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was a pandemic distraction from lockdowns and languishing. I had somehow convinced myself I needed a typewriter. Locating one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PHILADELPHIA – How busy could a typewriter shop be in 2024, when software codes write themselves, when the siren song of ...

Between our laptops and our phones, we’re more connected than ever to what’s going on in the world, to what our friends and family are doing on social media and to information in general. It’s not ...

When narrowing down the best typewriter-style keyboards, we considered overall design, aesthetic appeal, durability, and price. For example, if you want a modern-looking keyboard with old-school, ...

Typewriters have a way of bringing a piece of the past into the present. The rough and organic look of a typed piece of paper somehow makes normal words appear more poetic and meaningful on the page.

I’m still weirdly proud of myself when my handwriting looks nice on a form. A century or two ago, that could have been a ...

Typewriters may be long past their heyday, but just because PCs, word processor software, and cheap printers have made them largely obsolete doesn’t mean the world is better off without them. Using a ...

The world’s first typewriter goes to auction in Köln (Germany) on 22 March 2025. Just 35 Malling Hansen Writing Balls remain, 30 are in museums and the battle for one of the few remaining specimens ...

Many years ago — a sakh yorn tzurik, as we say in Yiddish — when I had little money and was still an unpublished writer, I moved to a street in Manhattan with many used bookstores. It was a safe ...

Alan Riddell, ‘Typewriter Art’ (1975) (all images via monoskop.org) The archival project Monoskop.org has posted the entirety of Alan Riddell’s Typewriter Art (1975), an out-of-print volume collecting ...