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 ...

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Doug Nichol’s documentary “California Typewriter” is a rich, thoughtful, meticulously crafted tapestry about the evolution of the beloved writing machine for purists, history buffs, collectors and ...

If your nights or wee morning hours are spent penning the next great novel, but you find that a laptop — with all its wonderful distractions — is putting a damper on your efforts, the folks behind ...

In context: Many things can cause writer's block--fatigue, hunger, not being in the right head space. Even the constant distractions from the computer can ruin a thought process. One writer decided to ...

Edward Michael of Swintec, a New Jersey-based typewriter company, discusses the virtues of the modern typewriter and why it's still relevant. Swintec, a New Jersey typewriter company, is one of the ...

Author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon and other geeky tomes Neal Stephenson described how he wrote his first book at a 2003 USENIX keynote speech. After an editor accepted his book proposal, Stephenson ...

The first practical typewriter was slow, crude and never actually manufactured. Despite its flaws, it was the 1843 creation by East Brookfield native Charles Thurber that changed the way we exchange ...

STANFORD, California — Scholars in the U.S., Taiwan and China are buzzing about the discovery of an old typewriter, because the long-lost machine is part of the origin story of modern Chinese ...

Is the tendency to self-edit as you write stalling your momentum? Struggling with the endless distractions of life on your laptop? Freewrite’s single-purpose drafting tools are designed to help you ...

Following in the tech-savvy footsteps of the likes of Kim Kardashian, Tom Hanks has launched an iPad app. The Oscar-winning actor last week launched Hanx Writer, which simulates the experience and ...

1870 – Thomas Edison invented the first electric typewriter, which used electrical input to type remotely; however, the ...