My writing career was born when I was six and bashing away on my mom’s red typewriter. Yes, we only had typewriters in the house back then…I’M OLD.
Zoology
February 8th, 2010
My writing career was born when I was six and bashing away on my mom’s red typewriter. Yes, we only had typewriters in the house back then…I’M OLD.
Oh typewriters. Thank God I never had to use you.
The bell that run when you got to the end of a column and had to push the page back was the best part…
I’ve been hunten-pecken-clacken-bangen first on typewriters since1976, and only since 2004 on a computer, and I still type like I saw a qwerty keyboard for the first time this morning. Yeah, I’m forty.
The typewriter was the most fascinating thing in my first-grade classroom… but like Angsty, I was a perfectionist lost without a backspace.
I was born in 1989, so while I’ve never HAD to use a typewriter, my mother had one in her office that I used to play with when I was little. It was an automatic, though, so I never experienced the whole pushing-the-thing-back thing.
I remember IMing on a typewriter, anyone else ever do that?
Both my parents were computer programmers when i was born so i have the same romanticised view of typewriters as he does.
And on an unrelated note I’M SO DAMN YOUNG!
We had computers that ran MS-DOS.
When I was three or four, my sister had to type a paper up for school. We went to the public library to do it because, while we had a computer, we didn’t have a printer, and we certainly didn’t have internet, which was called… I’m not old enough to remember what it was called back then. Anyway, there was this little room in the back of the library with a computer, which my sister was using, and a typewriter. There was some lady using it. It was the only time in my entire life I saw anyone actually use a typewriter.