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more about #typewriter impala79: Maybe I'm biased because I'm an engineering student (90% of notes are mathematical), but in my math and electrical engineering classes NOBODY uses lap... more » deciBels: My dad just used an analog tape recorder. There is always hand writing notes. I never took notes by computer as it is REALLY difficult keeping up on a... more » blash: Typewriters still have some use... mainly if you need to type on a form that's still not available in electronic format. Getting a form to align in a ... more » Alfisted: What class is this, Douchebaggery 101? more » anton.molla: [www.youtube.com] . more » PaddyDugan: Two things: 1. Many offices have at least one typewriter to use for filling out forms that aren't available in digital format. 2. College students too... more » Lizard_King: heh. I had an English Lit professor in high school who insisted the computer would be the death of good literature, and that all good authors would co... more » Mikestan: I remember banging out late night book reports on my dad's typewriter when I was a kid. (making a mistake toward the end of the page was the worst fe... more » Saboth: Hmm, when I was in college (not that long ago), they pretty much forced you to write all you notes by hands. Lots of professors forbid any recording d... more » infmom: I still have an Olympia portable typewriter that my dad gave me for my 13th birthday. I can't think of any reason to get rid of it. :) more » Noobs-R-Us: Hard to imagine that kids born today will not know what the hell a typewriter is. Or what a cassette tape looks like. Or what an 8 track is. VHS or Be... more » njdevil: But.. where's the backspace? more » helary: Anthony Burgess wrote a whole book dedicated to his typewriter : Homage to QWERTYUIOP. This is mainly an authopsy of his work but in the perspective ... more » Franchisekiller: That is exactly the type of typewriter a good book should be written on. Hunched over in a raggedy cardigan, in the corner of a worn down house at th... more » aek8: My god, it's not his writing style, his apostrophe key must just be broken! His writing is no longer so hideously annoying! more » donjosephus: Where is his Wiki page at? more » P3nnst8r: Man, that show's so white. #typewriter more » Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: 160 words? Dayum! On a manual typwriter? Shoot! 25-30 jobs? That's whack! #typewriter more » bradly2795: "And I always tell them....Hard work...Hard Work...(one hand typing skills) Hard work..." This video is classic. Why can't we all strive to make musi... more » ripfire: Wow! #typewriter more » -
#pranks
Every College Student Should Just Buy a Typewriter
A real true history lesson: Before there were laptops, everyone had to carry entire desktop computers to class. Before there were desktops, they had to lug typewriters. Before that, everyone just tried real hard to remember stuff. Ask your grandparents! More » -
#retromodo
Every Single One of Cormac McCarthy's Works Was Typed on This
Cormac McCarthy has spent many years bent over this typewriter banging out books and screenplays, including All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road. Now, after many decades, he's giving up his trusty old gadget. More » -
#retromodo
Witness Ron "Typewriter" Mingo In Action
This video has it all folks. The fastest typist in the world circa the late 70's, music, pimp suits and the hardships of a man too damn good at what he does. More » -
#mods
Musical Typewriter Makes Your Annoying Poetry Double As Annoying Music
This typewriter is modified to play a different note with every key pressed. It's a neat idea, but if you're actually typing words the music it produces is similar to the music produced by a cat walking on a piano. More » -
#typewriters
The Quiet Cult of the Olympia Report deLuxe Electric Typewriter
Steven Levy, Wired senior writer and the man who found Einstein's missing brain, joins us to recollect his gadget-laden life back in 1979. He starts, fittingly, with the last typewriter he ever owned. More » -
#hardcopy
22 Pop Email Typewriter for Luddites
22 Pop is a modified typewriter that allows you to send emails. You type out the recipient, subject and message on a special template sheet and the message is sent when you pull the finished page out. The website claims that the device can also receive messages, but I can't see how it could print out an email. The project was inspired by the difficulty that one of the designer's mothers had when trying to email her daughter. [Interaction-Ivrea] -
