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@unoriginalname4321

2 ай бұрын

"Ad Agencies" "Hate This One" "Trick!"

@SMOKEtillUReyezBLEED

Ай бұрын

Except this ad from big type writer

@Jake-vt4ow

Ай бұрын

And no tracking.

@safiremorningstar

Ай бұрын

You said it!

@l337pwnage

Ай бұрын

No battery. No charge. I miss it.

@philiplubduck6107

Ай бұрын

Yeah but you have to supply ink and align paper. Also no back space is a problem except for one or two expensive models with a white ink.

@Moonchilling

Ай бұрын

@@philiplubduck6107that’s why whiteout was invented

@theOlLineRebel

Ай бұрын

No backspace? Many has that. As for the ink….invariably it lasted for ages. Maybe if you’re a deadly serious secretary in a serious business. But for us regular people at home, almost never heard of replacing ink.

@bite-sizedshorts9635

Ай бұрын

@@theOlLineRebel I can't count how many times I had to change ribbons on typewriters. Perhaps you didn't type much. Anyway, new ribbons to fit most models are still available online. I have a re-inker machine, so I can re-ink a ribbon and use it over and over till I wear holes in it.

@bite-sizedshorts9635

Ай бұрын

@@philiplubduck6107 Ribbons don't cost that much. You'd have to buy paper for a printer anyway, if you need hard copies. If you're a good typist, you don't make many errors. If you make an error, there's Wite-Out and correction tape.

It's not just a nostalgia/hipster/sentimental thing. It's legit the most efficient way to quickly push out a body of text without needing to boot up a computer. The typewriter is not obsolete, there is absolutely a market for it.

@Pedgo1986

Ай бұрын

It depends but even if its not most effective way i think that's not the point. Personally i believe people are slowly fed up with all this "smart" technology, constantly being accessible, signed and subscribed an connected even for efin kitchen sink and we will see renaissance of "dumb" offline old-school technologies and people going "off the grid" so the speak by limiting they internet access. i found my old Nokia 3310 that indestructible beast is still working and when i think about it it has anything that i need the only "real" thing that new smartphone is giving me are games when iam waiting somewhere sometimes maps everything else can wait when i come home and boot pc and frankly i don't even read mails on phone i just refuse be 24/7 in touch and working or dealing with issues directly or indirectly i have me time and my physical and mental health is better then ever.

@alyssa7867

Ай бұрын

Legible text on a page, no electricity required.

@nickiemcnichols5397

Ай бұрын

@@alyssa7867unless it’s an IBM Selectric.

@hhectorlector

Ай бұрын

My PC takes like 15 seconds to boot and I can get into word within the same minute. I think that’s most people’s experience now and will be the case more and more every year (due to higher prevalence in SSDs)

@FiveBlackFootedFerrets

Ай бұрын

I doubt there's even one recorded instance of an electric typewriter crashing upon startup.

Now THAT'S the kind of rebellion I can get behind. 😊 Typewriters, landlines and vinyl records, radio, cinema are much more relaxed way of living than TV, cells and computers.

@u2bear377

Ай бұрын

Spades, forks, axes, stoves and hurricane lamps and bonfire storylelling is even more relaxed way of living.

@Safferpsyche

Ай бұрын

@@u2bear377 Yeah I know, but I don't mind working in symbiosis with the Matrix if it doesn't try to kill me every 5 seconds.

@themarquis336

Ай бұрын

You’re just incapable of accepting and adapting to contemporary reality. You’re a weak link.

@Amanditititito

Ай бұрын

... said a guy on KZread

@RekLara

Ай бұрын

Oh landlines!!! They were so reliable and they worked even in a power outage!! I miss them too. You forgot cassette tapes and VCRs.

My grandfather was a repairman and his work dried up in the 90s. He died in 06, but always said typewriters would be back. He knew.

@varoonnone7159

Ай бұрын

I don't want to be mean but it's a fad

@JBlinky67

Ай бұрын

@varoonnone7159 LOL. No problem. Oh I totally agree 😆

@painkillerjones6232

Ай бұрын

@@varoonnone7159 Unless you don't want ANY chance of someone knowing what you're transcribing, writing, planning...

@varoonnone7159

Ай бұрын

@@painkillerjones6232 Like uber conspirationists who represent a fraction of the population 🤗

@Mr.Reckless

Ай бұрын

I'm sorry for the loss of your grandfather. My condolences go out to you and your family.

I told my husband years ago that a generation will come along that will reject all technology. For my own sanity, I turn my phone off when I go to bed on Saturday nights and don't turn it back on until 6pm Sunday night.

@cutterc2399

Ай бұрын

My phone is turned off at 9:00 PM every night. Monday through Thursday it is turned on at 6:00 AM. Friday through Sunday it remains off unless I need to use it.

@bite-sizedshorts9635

Ай бұрын

I decided not to have a cellphone, as I don't want to be available 24/7/365. I like to be totally out of contact at night and any time I take a walk outside or take a ride in my car. My computer is in my home office, so I can leave it alone. It runs 24/7, as it will last longer that way. It's over 12 years old and works perfectly. And it keeps up with new software fine.

@myidentityisinjesus8880

Ай бұрын

@@bite-sizedshorts9635 when I retire, I'm getting a landline and a flip phone. I live in rural America so having a phone in case of emergency is smart, I just don't need it to be a smart phone.

@LyricsQuest

Ай бұрын

Good idea. I don't have a phone, so I guess that's why I'm always good? Dunno.

@christins.1481

Ай бұрын

My sound stays off. I only turn on my phone when family is out, that way of they need to call they can. I keep my phone on cause they're gaming apps I use that pay money. One such app I get a $5 Amazon gift card from which goes to Amazon account and my husband is legally disabled, so we get half off on Prime. Which our due date comes, Amazon withdrawls from the gift card balance. So instead of us paying the half-off $7.99 for Prime, we pay less than $3.00 a month. My husband has a laptop that he plays games on and doesn't stay connected to the internet.

Back in 2002, i typed up an essay for my junior year. I didnt have a printer and my teacher requested we had it printed out. My teacher was so impressed that i used a typewriter. He announced it to my whole class. Miss that typewriter

@DanAndHoe

Ай бұрын

I never grew up around typewriters (late twenties now) but got one, exactly for that purpose. I don’t have a printer and sometimes I need things physically, but don’t feel like going to the library to get it printed.

@michaelzero5278

Ай бұрын

It was all worth it

@HelloKittyFanMan

Ай бұрын

If that's something that you still like (because you say you miss it), then why don't you still have it?

@christina_7028

Ай бұрын

@@HelloKittyFanMan I had to leave my home suddenly and not all of my possessions were kept for me.

@HelloKittyFanMan

Ай бұрын

Oh wow, @@christina_7028, I'm so sorry about that; how sad! I hope you're doing OK!

Type writers cannot be hacked. Brilliant!

@BitTheByte

Ай бұрын

I recall reading somewhere you can actually get some clues about what someone was typing from the ink strip in the typewriter! It’s actually pretty fascinating. Mix this with analyzing the wear patterns on the keys, advanced modern imaging tech, and some other fun stuff you can figure what they were writing. If you have a document you can figure out exactly what type writer wrote it and recover deleted or obstructed text. This isn’t “hacking” in the traditional sense but it has some remarkable similarities

@1MysteryZ1967

Ай бұрын

@@BitTheByte truth.

It's a completely different experience from typing on a computer. Psychologically. And definitely in a good way. It's like a mental exercise.

@espsc1981

Ай бұрын

🤓

@ButWhyMe...

Ай бұрын

Could you explain?

@silversilk8438

Ай бұрын

Is it the same way as taking notes on paper versus on computer? But I thought writing the words out by hand is better than pressing non-distinct buttons… so is it just the feeling of permanence?

@user-cg2eb1gq7i

Ай бұрын

@@ButWhyMe... Quick example when working on a manual typewriter, you need to be very conscious of what you are typing, no spell checker only yourself and a dictionary, one mistake, I have made a few whilst typing this reply to you lovely, isn't just a quick backspace and type again It is a painstaking process of rolling the paper feed, ensuring you count correctly the number of times you roll the paper back, to enable you to white out the mistake, make sure that it is dry and then get back to the line and in line with the one you were originally typing. I sincerely hope I explained and really haven't put you off trying a manual typewriter, I had an exercise in typing class one day, using different characters made a picture a lady in a crinoline dress, following a pattern supplied by my fab teacher, it did take a lot of concentration, however not being talented at art, I was able to create something in a medium that I was nearly competent in;-) Please give it a go, there are some amazing machines out there and they are a pleasure to use, Best wishes

@swisschalet1658

Ай бұрын

@@ButWhyMe... It's actually hard to press the keys down...way harder than a computer keyboard. It really exercises the wrists and fingers. It's loud, in a good way. It is a challenge to get "fast" at typing on it. You have to push the keys really far down, not just a small distance, like with a computer keyboard.....like 3/4th an inch versus an 8th of an inch on a modern keyboard, depending on the machine. You can see the inner workings...watch the keys strike the paper and see the ink ribbon advance with each strike, unlike a computer where you have no idea what's going on inside. There is no spell-check. There is no backspace over a letter...once you type it, it's on the paper permanently unless you use correction tape, White-Out, or a special eraser.

When I was growing up in the 1970s, I was miserable in school because I was hopelessly dyslexic and teachers at the time just thought I was stupid. That all started to change when I began to play with my grandmothers manual typewriter and taught myself how to use it. Over the span of about a year and a half I became proficient at it and it "cured" my reading and spelling problem. Eventually, I started earning top grades and graduated with honors. I am certain that learning the correct use of a manual typewriter had a lot to do with my success in school and life in general.

@silversilk8438

Ай бұрын

How did that cure you? I thought dyslexia was about reading comprehension.

@sarahm.5356

Ай бұрын

​@@silversilk8438Dyslexia isn't about comprehension. It's a glitch in the brain about processing the letters you're seeing. There are other disorders that affect reading comprehension, such as hyperlexia.

@vegastrina

Ай бұрын

Former tutor here for children that fall under the dyslexic umbrella (which also includes dyscalculia and dysgraphia). A glitch in the brain is a good explanation. It is a disconnect between what is seen or heard and what is communicated in some form. People who fall under this umbrella tend to struggle with focus, energy control, communication in any form, processing, space awareness, and so on. Not all people under this umbrella are the same. People under this umbrella tend to have above average IQs, are artists, thinkers, and so on. More people fall under this umbrella than people who are "normal". Tactile objects, such as a typewriter, are tremendously helpful for all ranges of learning and comprehension. At younger ages, a break from learning every 20 minutes is a fabulous stress reducer. Dyslexics tend to do better with pictorial languages, reading is best started at age 10 (but not always)...with proper guidance they will catch up to their peers in a handful of weeks, starting too soon can cause a myriad of blocks that then need to be remolded, which in turn causes a delay in learning that is followed by unnecessary struggles. The dyslexic umbrella is hereditary and is almost not ever diagnosed unless it appears in academics. A person can have every symptom of this condition and not ever know why they do certain things because it didn't show up during the school years, if they were sent to school (versus home education)...and even then it could have been dismissed as something else. Dyslexia is greatly unsupported in all circles, including education, it has barely been noticed and acknowledged, even today, despite that a few specialized schools exist, or have existed. Even though it has gained recognition, it still doesn't receive the support that other learning conditions receive. Dyslexia used to be called word-blindness. Famous dyslexics include Whoppi Goldberg, Orlando Bloom, Albert Einstein, Jay Leno, Henry Winkler, Thomas Edison, Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Carl Jung, Napoleon Bonaparte, Mohammad Ali.

@nidhishshivashankar4885

Ай бұрын

Why was typing so different for you as compared with writing?

@silversilk8438

Ай бұрын

@@vegastrina Thanks for the explanation. How did they diagnose ol' Leonardo with dyslexia? (I ask it more as a rhetorical joke. I think he wrote his journals from left to write mirrored but... I don't think that's dyslexia.)

1969 I graduated HS, proficient in Gregg shorthand and typing 72 words per minute on a manual typewriter. I wanted to become an executive secretary in NYC. My first typing job in Manhattan was at Bergdorf Goodman typing invitations and envelopes for sales events. I achieved my goals from Park Ave., NYC to California St., SF -supporting top executives. Now retired and smiling at the memories of those days. I’m happy there is renewed interest in the typewriter.

@suev3339

Ай бұрын

Been there done that too - my first Secretary position was for my excellence in typing speed and accuracy. A wonderful skill of memory and fingers.

@dsmarty6395

Ай бұрын

@@suev3339 . . .the sound of the key strike and the carriage return was magical for me. I am still a fast typist. . .using one finger now on my iPad 🫣. When that cable show Mad Men came out, it took me right back to when I wore stockings, sling backs, and a dress every day to the office where people smoked, drank at lunch. . .and I had to address them as Mr.. . .🤔 The good old days -when you could not fake skills. Hope you’re doing well.

@ItsMefromSnuffys

Ай бұрын

Nice memory😊

@paanne1013

Ай бұрын

My older sister was just like you! She retired from a International Law firm in D.C. a few years ago and did quite well in life. I never got the hang of shorthand, but did type for a living and always hated it. lol

@noble604

Ай бұрын

Were the Bergdorf envelopes light purple? Did they use high quality stationery? In my imagination, I see the BG invitations being quite lovely in that day💜.

Look into the "Dumb Phone" rebellion too! It's just like this but with adults opting for flip phones, old phones, or specially designed phones with zero social media or distractions! Love this. ❤

@ivegotlungfoot6890

Ай бұрын

i'm looking for an old phone like this because i'm sick of smart phones and the internet

@vidhoard

Ай бұрын

@@ivegotlungfoot6890 I got the Sunbeam Pro! It's awesome. But expensive.

@niteshades_promise

23 күн бұрын

i miss my slide out keyboard phone. texting on a flip phone was faster and i could do it one handed without looking while driving and shifting gears no problem. 🍻

1974: First office job, IBM selectric to type reports, no spell check, no repeat. Dictionary within reach.

@bmaxdlux3169

Ай бұрын

Ahh... The Good 'ol Days. 🙂👍

@Billy_Bad_Ass

Ай бұрын

@@bmaxdlux3169 Yes, I often think about the _Good ol' Days_ -- and how much they truly *SUCKED*.

@MeMeDaVinci

Ай бұрын

Don't forget the thesaurus 😊

@kenc2257

Ай бұрын

Ohhh...those fancy IBM Selectrics were the "Cadillac" of typewriters, back in the day. With the changeable "ball," and the ability to switch between Pica and Elite. Some of them must have had a memory buffer, and a very fast typist could finish typing, and the ball would continue for a few more keystrokes (that was magical).

@Mi_Fa_Volare

Ай бұрын

You still could hook up the selectric computer and browsw an ssh server or chat in an irc server.

That’s brilliant. No deep fakes, no hacking, just straight man-machine interface. A ray of light in an increasingly dark world.

@wizrom3046

Ай бұрын

But how are the corporate overlords going to insert popup ads on a typewriter??? NOOOOOOOOOO!!! 😫

@jonnybolin7516

Ай бұрын

Your so right. You know, I just felt like I needed to ask, are you 100 percent sure that when you die you will go to heaven? I don’t usually comment like this, but your comment just stood out to me so much.

@diegomenezes8838

Ай бұрын

The things americans do in order to just don't learning writing in cursive

@jeanlefranc3817

Ай бұрын

@@diegomenezes8838 yes, you have a point.

I am a male. I took a typing class in high school back in 1971. It helped immensely as I began a 21 year career in computer programming. A typewriter was a necessity back then. It’s a novelty now.

@littleripper312

Ай бұрын

Why are you telling us you're a male?

@jungleno.

Ай бұрын

@@littleripper312 “I am what I am and that’s what I am” said Popeye the sailor man.

@oz_jones

Ай бұрын

​@@littleripper312 because it's important within context. Typists were still mostly women even back then

@robertlassiter907

Ай бұрын

Cool trivia. Troy Aikman won the Oklahoma State High School typing championship in 1983.

@robertlassiter907

Ай бұрын

@@jungleno.Booya!

As a software developer (past) I have concluded that anything analog is more human.

@alyssa7867

Ай бұрын

I can't argue with you there. MP3 players are still cool, though.

@user-hk6mt4uo4p

Ай бұрын

@@alyssa7867 You haven't lived until you've rewound a cassette tape with a pencil. 😏

@davemiller6055

Ай бұрын

@@user-hk6mt4uo4p Been there. Done that. I even spiced broken cassettes with scotch tape.

I have a manual portable typewriter that I paid hardly anything for. Once saw such a device described as a “Y2K Compliant Laptop.

@connormclernon26

Ай бұрын

I got mine for free when a neighbor was moving and didn’t want to take it with him. If I could find a tape for it, I’d be a lot happier.

@FiveBlackFootedFerrets

Ай бұрын

I have a Y2K compliant toaster too, and a bird feeder and... Millennium bug! (snort)

@Dargonhuman

Ай бұрын

You know you're old when you casually reference Y2k like it was a few years ago. Can someone pass me the fiber? My muscle rub hasn't absorbed in yet...

@007Julie

Ай бұрын

@@connormclernon26try eBay, there are plenty of sellers who specialize in ink cartridges for a variety of typewriter models.

@stephenroot1012

Ай бұрын

@@connormclernon26 Check with office supplies dealers for new ribbons, copy paper and correction fluid. Depending on security some government agencies overseas are still using non-digital equipment to avoid hackers. All else fails try to find a video on re-inking your ribbon and go from there.

“I love bread”. Very important words to type!

@deckiepoo

Ай бұрын

Lol .. mine was always "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.

@wellesradio

Ай бұрын

@@deckiepoofor some reason mine was always “I will always be the king.” It wasn’t a statement of any kind. I think maybe it’s the distribution of those letters on the keyboard combined with my typing ability at the time when I first wrote it. The quick brown fox was just too much. Purely associative, I think, and it stuck with me for years whenever I saw a keyboard.

@deckiepoo

Ай бұрын

@@wellesradio ...😁 I understand.

@chunkymilk

Ай бұрын

very cute.

@R_C420

Ай бұрын

Good news for the Scranton branch. They need to start selling ink ribbons now though. Two forms of single use media to operate.. Much convenience, many improvement. Totally not just trolls trying to make annoying noise as much as possible, and claiming arguable other reasons for the activity.

"with a type writer, what you said is what you said, you can't change that." Whiteout: "May I introduce myself?"

This whole story was summed up in 1998… There is a scene in Saving Private Ryan when the young platoon guy scrambles to bring his belongings and drops his typewriter…and Tom Hanks just holds up the pen without saying a word. Brilliant. It’s not even about the machine itself, it’s about what’s been around a lot longer. It. Just. Works.

My husband gave me a 1937 typewriter for Christmas a couple years ago. It was the most played with thing that Christmas day. I had grandkids here ranging from 5 to 29 years old and they loved it! I was surprised at how much the teenagers enjoyed typing with it. And it isn't an "easy touch"!

@alienonion4636

Ай бұрын

I learned to type on a manual that is nonelectric. I learned to love slamming the keys. I still find it funny that I scored low on speed tests because I was typing so fast the parts that strike the paper got stuck to each other. Being too fast made me too slow.

@bite-sizedshorts9635

Ай бұрын

@@alienonion4636 That's why the letters are arranged as they are on a standard keyboard. It keeps the hammers further apart for the most used letters.

@alienonion4636

Ай бұрын

@@bite-sizedshorts9635 yes, I learned that along with typing in HS...1969 😁

@novampires223

Ай бұрын

Remember shorthand? Loved it!

@kensingtonwick

Ай бұрын

Those are the best kind😊

This video somehow found me, I have an 100 year old typewriter passed down from generation to generation, I felt like using it now, feel like it’s an escape from modern technology that I needed in my life. Thought I was the only one.

@CricketsBay

2 ай бұрын

eBay is a great place to get tapes (ink) and replacement parts for old typewriters. And there are a surprising number of typewriter-repair shops in the U.S. which sell the replacement tapes, etc.

@buttercupcoffee5972

Ай бұрын

Go for it. Tom hanks has a collection if typerwriters. I dont think it as odd ayou might think.

@DecrepitBiden

Ай бұрын

You're NOT (the only one). I go to Hobby Lobby, & just touch rulers, erasers, protractors, pens & pencils, anything physical that I used to use in the 70's & 80's when I was in school.

@veeavakian3284

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this info! I never thought to look there. (duh on my part!)​@@CricketsBay

I admire the enthusiasm in this young ones. My dad had an UNDERWOOD typewriter. Very few would have heard about it.

@misspnaylor

Ай бұрын

Wow! That brought back a distant memory. The first typewriter I was assigned as a junior shorthand typist at a charted accountants was an Underwood. End of year accounts having to use black then red carbon paper.

@jeffreyhotchkiss9451

Ай бұрын

We had one in the family. Heavy item!

A family friend who was an Educator taught me how to type in 1973 when I was 10 years old and had recently lost my mother. She told me that it was a valuable skill and that I’d always be employable once I mastered it. Rest in peace, Mrs. Boyd.

A very worthwhile "trend" ... may it continue, and flourish

@AN-Thecouragetolookforward

Ай бұрын

Oh the trees

@Ryan-wx1bi

Ай бұрын

What makes it worthwhile? -nothing

All of a sudden there is a resurgence in Liquid Paper sales!!

@CDJNineteen83

2 ай бұрын

Could be a good stock tip.

@italia689

Ай бұрын

The last typewriter my dad owned (1990s) already had a backspace button.

@davidb2206

Ай бұрын

That was invented and marketed by that Monkees guy (Nesmith)'s mother. He, in turn, wrote "Different Drum," a major hit for Linda Ronstadt. Talented family.

@CS-gk1kn

Ай бұрын

I had a tendency to be too heavy handed with the liquid; loved the tape (retype to erase). I was so thrilled when I got to use a newer typewriter that had the corrective tape cartridge!

@kitsunegiblaze8022

Ай бұрын

I thought we just called that "white out?" Also, I really wanna make a William S. Burroughs joke.

I love the appeal of typewriters. I have one and I'm keeping it forever. I think it's really something that you can't get anywhere else, the permanency, the texture of the paper, no ads, no battery or cord to plug in. It's just pure writing

"It's just you, and the keys." This is awesome!

One typing class kept me out of Vietnam in 1972, a manual typewriter is a work of art.

@SockTaters

Ай бұрын

How did the class keep you out of Vietnam?

@edwardprice140

Ай бұрын

@@SockTaters I was a 6821 Weather ops.

@FiveBlackFootedFerrets

Ай бұрын

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." One of a few sentences which when typed uses every alphabet key on a typewriter or keyboard. But you already knew that.

@alexislopez9355

Ай бұрын

You're a coward.

@alexislopez9355

Ай бұрын

You're a coward.

I miss my old typewriter. The only drawback I ever had with it was if I was typing too fast, a couple of the keys could become tangled. Still, it is fun to remember the time of being "unplugged".

@Alinor24

Ай бұрын

That is exactly the reason why the letters on a typewriter aren't in alphabetical order. They changed it so the letters you often use together are far away from each other. That way the key tangeling happens less often.

@bazza945

Ай бұрын

A Hazzard that went with the machine. You must acquire the proper rhythm.

@LeeLLewis

Ай бұрын

I never had that problem. 😄

@amoureux6502

Ай бұрын

​@@Alinor24 For anyone who's curious the most common letters to tangle before the introduction of QWERTY were t and h! T was directly below h so hitting them in succession could halt a typist in their tracks (and just look at how many times in this message alone I've typed "th")

@HelloKittyFanMan

Ай бұрын

If that's something that you still like (because you say you miss it), then why don't you still have it?

I love typewriters. I had one in high school. Little did I know how valuable typing class would be when computers showed up. I wanted an IBM selectric so bad I could taste it. Never got one.

When I was in high school in the 1980s, we had to take a typing class. Because our school didn't have a lot of funding, our typewriters were literally from 1910 through 1920s. I wish I had one of those old models now.

My high school typing skills supported me for almost 40 years.

@ElaineBarlow

Ай бұрын

same!

@ExWEIMan

Ай бұрын

When I was looking for a job my wife would type my resumes. She got tired after about the sixth one so she gave me her high school typing book and said have at it. I didn't have a job, had lots of time, so I started on page one and worked my way through the book. Like you I have used what I learned for decades to type my work reports. I am retired but still do contract work typing my reports and emailing them when complete. I don't think I would ever go back to a typewriter because I make to many mistakes and the backspace key is my best friend.

@pkmcnett5649

Ай бұрын

Same, but I could only type 45 wpm.

@TheDoctor394

Ай бұрын

Mine still do. I went to High School here in Australia in the early 1980s, and was one of the few boys to take typing class. Flash forward a few years and personal computers were starting to become a thing and, suddenly, typing was very important to both males and females. I continued to use a typewriter, first manual and then electronic, until I went shopping to buy a new cartridge and found out they weren't being sold anymore (I was behind the times with CDs and DVDs as well). So that was the end of my typewriter life, but I kind of still do miss it.

@gj8683

Ай бұрын

When I was 13, my mother made me take typing lessons during the summer. This was back in the days when "real" guys didn't type. (That was for women to do.) I learned and kept the QWERTY habit through my whole career, from manual to electric typewriters to mainframes to laptops. Thanks Mom!!

Still got my manual typewriter. And my typewriting class in high school became my most valuable class ever. I use the typing skills I learned every single day.

@ohana8535

Ай бұрын

Someone recently asked me how a blind person could possibly type on a computer keyboard. My stunned response was "Who looks at the keyboard when typing?" They were astounded to find out that you really could not look at typewriter keys and have any speed, because you were reading what was supposed to be written. Many times what you were reading was terrible handwriting. So yes, I use those skills too, and now that person is trying to learn how to type without looking at the keyboard.

@bite-sizedshorts9635

Ай бұрын

@@ohana8535 When I took typing, there came a time when the teacher replaced all the keys with blank keys.

@bite-sizedshorts9635

Ай бұрын

Back in 8th grade in the mid 1960s, when I was choosing courses for high school, my father looked at the list of courses and told me that of all the courses listed, typing was the only one I'd ever really use. This was way before computers. I took two years of typing. My last job before retirement was typing on a computer. I did that job for 18 years, so my father was correct.

@virginiamoss7045

Ай бұрын

Same here! It got me my first job as well as my second and third before I got my career going which did not require typing. Twenty-five years later computers debuted and my muscle memory kicked right in while nearly everyone else struggled to hunt and peck.

@ohana8535

Ай бұрын

@@bite-sizedshorts9635 Exactly.

I've loved typewriters since I was a child in the 1960s. When I was 10 yrs old I told my parents I wanted a typewriter when they asked what I wanted for a gift. They got me a portable Royal manual.

There’s something very satisfying about the clickity clack of a typewriter. I miss that sound.

I typed my bar exam on an IBM Selectric. 30 years ago.

@supers0nic77

Ай бұрын

Did you pass? That's awesome

@tomoth77

Ай бұрын

@@supers0nic77 sure did. 1st time.

@DG-kr8pt

Ай бұрын

@@tomoth77 Are you done typing it yet?

@tomoth77

Ай бұрын

@@DG-kr8pt long gone is my selectric. I now type on a laptop.

I've still got my mom's beloved Underwood typewriter, exactly like the one in the opening credits of 'Murder She Wrote'.

@cleliaparnell8743

2 ай бұрын

I'm so jealous!!😊

@alanjameson8664

Ай бұрын

In typing class I was never able to get up to 60 words per minute, but the ones I could type the fastest on were the ones (perhaps like your mom's) which had the VERY short return lever and required raising the carriage to type capital letters. Whenever someone needed a typewriter elsewhere, they seemed to grab the one on my desk, so I had about every type available in the class---except for the electrics, which were very new (this was before the IBM Selectric) and in the back room, available for use only after we had finished our assignments. Olympias were generally considered the best---luxurious even. There were "silent" typewriters, but they were uncommon. My brother advised me to get a typewriter -*-without-*- letters on the keys, so I would HAVE to learn where they were. There was a key chart at the front of the class. A few years later, when I was at junior college, the JC decided to replace all its office typewriters and decided to do it with Olympias, which were one third the cost of IBM Selectrics. As for not being able to make corrections, that isn't so. One could use an erasing shield to get rid of a mistake, although care was necessary. The pencil-shaped erasers had a stiff brush at the other end, to clean the type, which becomes gunked up with continued use. Oh, and back in typewriter days, very few men could touch-type-- that was "women's work." If you see reporters typing in old movies, they are ususally "hunt-and-peck" typists. It would have been a great idea to learn shorthand also, but I didn't understand what a help it would have been in college, and no one gave me that advice. Again, that was "womens' work." I do not understand the method court reporters use, but it is/was very fact compared to conventional typing.

@alanjameson8664

Ай бұрын

Disregard the strike-out type--the strike-out was added by the Internet gods.

@theOlLineRebel

Ай бұрын

Still have mom’s pink manual from the ‘50s, and my sister’s blue electric from the ‘70s. I loved them. Boy did I have fun just playing with them back then.

@pitsnipe5559

Ай бұрын

My mom had a 1940’s vintage Underwood. My most vivid memory of it was when I used it to write a fake absentee excuse letter to cover my playing hooky. 😊 Wish I still had it, don’t know what ever happened to it.

“I’m the boss, and the typewriter’s the employee; no arguments!” - Robert E. Howard

I love my Type Writer. I bought it about a year ago. I thought I was the only one. Thank you for this ❤

I have been using a typewriter for four years, since I was 20. Additionally, I sew on a 1906 Singer treadle Sewing Machine. 😊

@Someone-tn8ur

Ай бұрын

Amazing... how did you manage to get KZread to load on your typewriter?

@christinareynolds8179

Ай бұрын

@@Someone-tn8ur it’s very easy, set your tablet on the space where the paper goes.

@Someone-tn8ur

Ай бұрын

@@christinareynolds8179 Ah, so smart :)

when I saw this, I cried. I'm 61, and I know the joy of typewriters. What a blessing this can be for young people so "controlled" by computers. Praise God to see this come back technology🙏🏼🥹

@niiii_niiii

Ай бұрын

Southern Lizzy Boy

@mindfornication4funn

Ай бұрын

You should be happy when everybody goes back to being tarzans

Royal Quiet Deluxe 1956 user here. Heck yeah. This video gets it. No internet, no power, no distractions, no bologna. Just you and the keys.

EXCELLENT reporting and editing. Very very good job.

Typewriters are irresistible. There’s nothing like the satisfaction of pounding each letter out, by your own hands.

@ivandubinsky1857

Ай бұрын

Now people will have to learn how to spell as there is no auto-correct on typewriters.

@Amanditititito

Ай бұрын

... just like every computer keyboard on Earth.

I’ve had my Smith Corona for decades and it’s my grandchildren’s favorite item. I bought a record player and rotary phone just to watch them appreciate the past. Don’t forget the pleasure of reading a hardback book.

@thatonepossum5766

Ай бұрын

Hardcover books are so nice. I typically go for them over paperbacks when I can afford it (which is unfortunately not often, since a book series will cost 2-3x more as hardcovers). Hardcovers aren’t as portable as paperbacks, but for me they totally make up for it in their durability. Glued bindings (what paperbacks are made with) fall apart so much faster than the hardcover’s sewn binding. I’ve got one book that I bought used, that has the pages completely separated from the spine. It’s only still together because of the sewn binding (cover is attached via glue on the front and last page).

@theflyingspaget

Ай бұрын

​@@thatonepossum5766you're getting sewing in your hardbacks? Most of my hardbacks are glued.

Me too. Love it! Doesnt hurt your eyes and sounds beautiful.

My college roommate used to complain about the sound of my typing. Admittedly, I did have a lot of papers to type. I can't exactly say that I miss the typewriter, but it's kind of neat that a new generation is learning about the way we used to do things.

“what you said is what you said and nothing can change that” the kid has never had a bottle of white out 😂

@johnvanderploeg6707

2 ай бұрын

Or the type eraser. I had typing and bookkeeping course and we were able to back space, erase, use the brush end of the eraser to clear the page and correct our mistake. Realigning was a hassle, but no, any mistakes did not have to be permanent.

@MaxSolar-dd5wq

2 ай бұрын

Strangely enough I have used correction tape on some word processors, but just after I was interviewed I was made aware of manual correction tape by my English Teacher, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s hard as heck to get ink off Also, you CAN use white out if you never want to load the document in the typewriter again

@MarthaM4858

2 ай бұрын

@@MaxSolar-dd5wq the tip is to use the whiteout while the paper is in the typewriter

@MaxSolar-dd5wq

2 ай бұрын

@@MarthaM4858 That works in some circumstances, but sometimes you might miss an error until the paper is removed. Now that I think of it, the white tape actually could work pretty well, but still, the difficulty in editing what you write that makes the typewriter special, because if you want your document “perfect” you need to be careful

@MarthaM4858

2 ай бұрын

@@MaxSolar-dd5wq I got my first typewriter as a high school graduation gift from my parents in 1976. I still have it so I know the ends and outs of using a typewriter. Besides if I make a big enough mistake that I can use correction tape or whiteout one I just put in a new page and start over.

Develops concentration and dexterity. Also love that typewriters don’t auto-change/correct what you are trying to say.

@u2bear377

Ай бұрын

Disable autocorrect. Switch off Wi-Fi / disconnect the patchcord. Uninstall Solitaire and Mahjongg. Voila.

@dragonsword7370

Ай бұрын

​@u2bear377 you could even find a keyboard that is a good simulation of the old kind.(I think. I'll check that now because I'm rather curious)

@PURENT

Ай бұрын

@@dragonsword7370 There's mechanical keyboards which are tactile and pleasing to use as they click pretty solidly.

This is absolutely fantastic! I hope this catches on more.

I love this! I remember typing my favorite book on my mom’s typewriter. I’m so glad these kids are taking an interest!

Using carbon paper to make a copy. Typing at 3 a.m. for an 8 a.m. class. Furiously waving my hand to dry the Liquid Paper (thank you, Mrs. Nesmith). Those were the days.

@DG-kr8pt

Ай бұрын

In college, I used to furiously wave my hand in front of my computer, then copy my friend file, change a few words/fonts, and submit it. Could do it all in 40 minutes, depending on how quick I finished.

@dan797

Ай бұрын

Liquid paper never dried. Lol

@ankavoskuilen1725

Ай бұрын

And if you didn't have carbon paper, there was no way out: you had to type it twice.

@richardpetty9159

Ай бұрын

LOL. So familiar! My brother and I roomed together in college in ‘79-80 and it was a very familiar thing… the typewriter being pounded furiously in the middle of the night, hours before a morning class when a paper was due.

Love this. My mom was a Typing teacher in the 1980s. She'll be happy to know that typewriters are having a comeback ❤❤❤❤❤

Larry McMurtry, the writer who penned The Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove, and Terms of Endearment, who passed away three years ago, wrote over 50 books on his manual Hermes typewriter, not to mention dozens of screenplays, essays, letters.

I’m so happy typewriters are making a come back. I own four typewriters each one with the unique style lol.

I'm an old man now, but when I was in high school (10th grade, 1970s) I decided to take one year of typing because it might come in good in the future. At least I would have some idea of how to type. No one (in school) even thought or knew about something called a desktop computer in the 1970s. So my decision back then paid off. Today, typing on a computer corrects misspelled words. So now, people don't have to think as much about spelling. We are dumber for it. Using a MANUAL type writer, it's up to you to learn how to spell correctly. I think this would be Good for the young generation. So if you have some kids in your family, you should consider getting them a MANUAL type writer. 👍 .

@unoriginalname4321

2 ай бұрын

Spel cheking and autoekorrect hadnt make mee dumer!

@DD-uf2uo

2 ай бұрын

@@unoriginalname4321 👍

@NoName-ik2du

Ай бұрын

Interesting counterpoint: I was a terrible speller as a kid, and relied heavily on spellcheck in Microsoft Word. I remember at the time thinking that I'd never learn to spell since I could just let the computer do the work for me. However, what ended up happening was every time a word was misspelled, since I had to click and and select the correct spelling, that _taught_ me how to spell all the words I didn't know. It was the equivalent of instant feedback from the teacher while the word was fresh in my head and I was primed to learn about it. The key factor there, though, may be that I grew up with early versions of spellcheck that made the user manually review what was wrong. This is different from autocorrect, which is constantly whirring away in the background and correcting things that users may often not even notice.

@DD-uf2uo

Ай бұрын

@@NoName-ik2du 👍. Good information for an old goat like me. Thanks for the reply. PS. Just a side note. Kids and grown ups today can easily find information and how to do things on near anything with the press of a few buttons. Us Boomers didn't have that. There is good and bad in everything, but I really think there is more good than bad with the Internet. .

@brodriguez11000

Ай бұрын

@@DD-uf2uo Right, but the quality is often less. Back then our "internet" was the public library.

Mrs. Judd was my freshman year Typing Teacher back in 1976. If she knew all this computer stuff today she would be Amazed! Good report!

As someone who grew up with typewriters I happily support this 😍

when you think about it, it makes a lot of sense. typewriters are verry tactile and satisfying to use, and the best part, NO ADS!!!

@DG-kr8pt

Ай бұрын

if it caught on, there would be ads. Marketers follow eyeballs.

@thatonepossum5766

Ай бұрын

@@DG-kr8pt how would they put ads on a typewriter? It’s non-electric. Stickers attached to the machine? 😅

@DG-kr8pt

Ай бұрын

@@thatonepossum5766 Yes exactly. Branded typewriters, but if they were to do so now, would probably just be beard oils, deodorant, and beanies.

@PURENT

Ай бұрын

@@thatonepossum5766 They would end up like printers where you have to buy branded ink and require an internet connection to use.

So cool! So happy for these students to experience analog devices. This is so much better for kids- no constant bombardment of ads and junk seeping in.

@mwatercress

2 ай бұрын

I also think there is value in them learning the old ways of doing research before the advent of the search engine.

@dfirth224

2 ай бұрын

@@mwatercress They will never know what searching through a card catalog at the library was like. :)

@mwatercress

2 ай бұрын

@@dfirth224 Or figuring out what books to look in the index for a deeper dive.

I've always loved the sound and feel of a typewriter, miss them.. Thanks to my junior high for having us type 1hr a day back in the 90's. As boring as it was typing the same sentence, it was well worth it. Little did I know, that skill would help me earn a living working office jobs.

I have an antique typewriter and three kids who can't get enough of using it. I'm proud of these guys. ❤

Writers, poets from typewriter days left incredible archives of their typed originals and corrections, changes and commentary. The errata is invaluable.

What a sweet and encouraging report! To see that kids themselves are valuing their focus and interested in things that can help with that and be of use for 1 thing only, instead of 5. To know that small businesses and repairmen are still open and getting business for their expertise. To hear that schools and libraries and listening to kids and taking cues to encourage this wave of interest in typewriters, which will undoubtedly make kids more literate and skillful, and patient. It’s all very exciting and encouraging.

I love this movement! This new following! I am thinking of the typewriter my dad bought for me. I will be on a lookout for one vintage kind.

That's pretty darn impressive! It really is and refreshing at the same time. It's as if those kids are traveling to a different time when they put their imaginations and vocabularies to the keys, Shift/Tab bars, and return lever. Especially in this day and age. Thanks for this great story!

My favorite was observing the die hard typists when first using a computer. No little 'ding' when coming to the end of your margin. No carriage return to bring it back to the other side of the page...

@MaryHughes-ko4fj

Ай бұрын

As a trained typist, I struggled with word processing software (early 1990s) until I tried WordPerfect. The genius of that program was that the screen looked like a page! Made for a much easier transition to computers.

@steviebboy69

Ай бұрын

@@MaryHughes-ko4fj I remember in the 80's using a word processor called Easyscript, and that being for the Commodore 64. There was another one as well but I forget the name, and we would print it out at school. We also learned to type on the old Manual ones like above in the video and they had Electric and Electronic ones which were even better as you could fix errors.

@dragonsword7370

Ай бұрын

​@@steviebboy69 I grew up using one of the electric powered models when I was around 10 to 13 years old. It was neat and filled the role it did for school papers, in the late '90's.

I still have the portable typewriter I used in college. I bought it at a thrift store for $20 over 50 years ago. New ribbons are still available online. I own a re-inker machine and ink, so I can re-ink ribbons until the nylon material wears out. I have a number of typewriters, but one of my favorites was an electronic one by Brother. It had a tiny display that showed the last few letters typed, and it was a buffer before the letters were printed. This meant that if you made a mistake, and it was still on the display, you could correct it before it went to the paper. I could type many pages with zero typos. I still have my typing card from high school saying I can type 65 words per minute. That's net words after subtracting errors.

@JasmineSurrealVideos

Ай бұрын

I've just commented on the same Brother electric typewriter I had at uni lol😂

There is a personal connection with a typewriter. Very physical like playing a an instrument.

I bet the classmates told the kid it's so pleasant to listen to him typing in class, it's so easy to focus

@BitTheByte

Ай бұрын

As someone with ADHD, I promise the feeling is not universal ;^^

I still have the typewriter I bought for college in 1976. It's a Sears model, made by Brother. I needed to type something not long ago and was surprised that the ribbon was still good. Using a typewriter forces you to thing about what you are writing because changing typed text is not an easy process.

This is excellent! Next up: teach them the secret code writing of cursive!

@johnvanderploeg6707

2 ай бұрын

No! We older folks are going to need some way to secretly communicate. Kind of like Morse Code for our generation.

@vadrifter3200

Ай бұрын

My mother has a typewriter that types in cursive.

@FourOf92000

Ай бұрын

@johnvanderploeg6707 bad news: I taught myself cursive and I'm 23

@kensingtonwick

Ай бұрын

@@FourOf92000😂 made my day

@porkchopps

Ай бұрын

As someone born in the early 90s, the only time I have ever needed cursive is my signature. This amount of usage is in a world designed by boomers, the ones that love to shout "They don't know cursive." Have you thought about why we don't focus on cursive any more as something to teach? Because its obsolete, it will survive as a niche hobby and may see a revival in interest someday, but for now the exact people that claim kids don't know it are the exact same people that designed a world where its useless.

I have two... I love the feel of the keyboard. There's a physical sensation to typing and that tactile feedback makes it so satisfying.

Good! The sound of typewriters is so comforting to me.

I spent a long time looking around for a laptop specifically for writing. Something that would start up quickly, have minimal to no distractions, and a screen that is easy on my eyes. Turns out, I was looking for a typewriter. No startup at all, it's always ready to go. No distractions. And nothing is easier on the eyes than ink on plain paper.

@wmd8840

Ай бұрын

Oddly enough, a device like you describe does exist, besides the typewriter. It’s called Freewrite. Has an e-ink screen, can only do word processing, and syncs your documents automatically to a computer for later editing. They’re expensive, but so were typewriters back in the day.

BEAUTIFUL!!! Hope for the future! Older IS better!

I had a couple of typewriters when I was a teenager in the 2010s. I absolutely loved them and miss them. I think as the world becomes more and more online, with things like subscriptions and WiFi connectivity to use anything on your computer, we’re going to see a gradual return to analog technology. There’s something neat about having the only copy of something in physical form. These days I dabble in photography, and I use old film cameras, plus develop the film myself and then take the negatives to the dark room for prints. I can bring a photo from conception to paper for others to enjoy without it ever being uploaded to a computer. Typewriters definitely give the same kind of satisfaction and I’m happy to see new generations discovering it for themselves.

Best part, No on line government spying.

@Astrofrank

Ай бұрын

No internet spying at all, also no malware.

@rdz-1776

Ай бұрын

@@Astrofrankno of ads either lol

@cameronwright8634

Ай бұрын

And no hackers

@ZE_TRVTH_NVKE

Ай бұрын

There are micro-particles in the paper and the ink that are used by the feds to discover your general location. The micro-particles' patterns, colors and shapes and orientations tell them in which state and by which company were the paper and ink manufactured and to which retailer were sold.

@jivanvasant

Ай бұрын

True. Documents produced by manual typewriters are hacker proof. No small thing in this world of 24/7 surveillance.

Tom Hanks is a huge collector of old typewriters. I came across him, by himself, at an industrial park near that movie studio near interstate 85 and I-285 in north Atlanta about 20 years ago. There was a small little typewriter repair and sales shop in some warehouse space there. He was incredibly down to earth and was delighted to find something for his collection. He said he likes to check out places like that when he's away from home. We all, fortunately, treated him like any customer, any man on the street, and he was beyond lovely.

@mightytaiger3000

Ай бұрын

He’s also a creep

@virginiamoss7045

Ай бұрын

@@mightytaiger3000 How so?

@Ryan-wx1bi

Ай бұрын

Wonder if he used it on Epsteins island

@virginiamoss7045

Ай бұрын

@@Ryan-wx1bi Was he on a flight roster?

@gasparole

Ай бұрын

@@mightytaiger3000 Elaborate please.

Grew up in NE OH and had a light blue Smith-Corona typewriter in my bedroom on my desk. Great memories of typing class too. Miss those days and wish I still had my typewriter!

I was so happy to see this video. Typewriters are great. My dad is 92 yrs. old and he still has his typewriter. Ya' know the one that is so heavy that you can do bicep curls with it; haha. I hope these young people learn how to type the "correct way" like I learned in high school in the '70's. Ya' know, home row, reach with the baby finger for the "z", etc. Great story for the day. Makes me smile.

I got an electric typewriter as a gift for college when I graduated from high school in 1981. I still have it. I could probably run it with a DeWalt battery and inverter.

@markbernier8434

Ай бұрын

Absolutely. you could.

@davidpawson9047

Ай бұрын

Why can't you run it from an electric outlet?

@markbernier8434

Ай бұрын

@@davidpawson9047 off grid home

@Serai3

Ай бұрын

Why not just plug it in?

I am 70 yrs old and have the Royal that my mother used while in the Army Air Force during WW2. Still looks new and works great.

I learned to type on an IBM Selectric. I am a hands on learner and thinker so I loved every minute of it.

Amd those lovely sounds! Nothing beats the sound of a crisp typewriters.

I used to service all types of office and business equipment. Good to see that it’s coming back. Now, all we need is mechanical cash registers to come back! They could run by a crank in a power failure!

As long as supplies (typewriter ribbons) and repair services are available, manual typewriters will continue to be with us. And that's a good thing.

@DG-kr8pt

Ай бұрын

And thats a good thing. You must read a lot of news articles, and thats a good thing.

I am constantly thankful that I had a Typewrite Class in 9th grade, '74-'75. I always rest my fingers at 'home' and rarely look at the keyboard.

I love it! It makes me regret the loss of my old typewriter 🥺 These kids are on to something ⭐️

Some times old tech holds it's merits even though the ages.

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs back. That uses all letters if you want to test a machine. We put out a typewriter at our local museum every year when the 2nd graders visit.

We used to have 3 typewriters. One was electric. My uncle used to fix typewriters and adding machines.

WOW! THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS!!! I grew up finally getting to USE a real typewriter. I got one of my own as a graduation gift from my parents! 1956. YEP. For Real! I SOOOO enjoyed it for a Bunch of years, till actually in the 1980s, computers came into my life. Computers are wonderful for many things, especially for my work. I'm a writer by profession. So computers eased up some of the slow-downs of typewriters. BUT the PRIVACY, Uninterrupted, on typewriter time....I DO miss THAT constantly *!*!*!*

@deedoyle4069

2 ай бұрын

....and it gives me great hope that young ones HAVE noticed AND are enjoying what it feels like to be ONE WITH YOUR WORK !!!

Best electric typewriter ever made by IBM. Impossible to jam the keys. The clickety clack noises that they made with a skilled typist came close to sounding like a teletype machine if you can remember what they are. The Selectrics were ubiquitous in the Air Force in the seventies. At least two on the desks in the administrative offices of every squadron.

@DecrepitBiden

Ай бұрын

We still used them in the 90's in some squadron. I think CBPO slowly switched over to computer in the 80's. I got out in '99, & they were a dying breed.

@FiveBlackFootedFerrets

Ай бұрын

@@DecrepitBiden I separated from the Air Force two decades before you did. The only computers the Air Force had were IBM mainframes at that time.

Analogue stuff !! So awesome you guys 👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍

When I was young, I had 2 typewriters. One I bought from my professor. It was a very large, extremely heavy thing from the fifties or even older. The older was a new, portable one. When I carried it around, I felt very sophisticated. 😊

My stepdaughter found our electric typewriter, asked what it was and spent hours on it, this was quite a few years ago now, I use the computer and shudder how my typing teacher would think about my typing today, she could spot an error at quite a distance, Mrs Weaver, you were amazing, thank you so much.

I wish I still had my mother's IBM Selectric. That is a beast!!!

"Just you and the keys." I like that.