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obsoletethebook:

People are so darn emotional about the iPhones today. Way back when, those kinds of feelings were reserved  for typewriters.
This little gem of a personal essay that ran in The New York Times in 1915.

Dang right.  I do love my gadgets as any good nerd girl does, but really there’s something deeply personal about a typewriter that all the glossy screens in the world just can’t top.  Y’know, I thought I was stuck in the ’60s—maybe it’s really 1915.
-TLOTH
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obsoletethebook:

People are so darn emotional about the iPhones today. Way back when, those kinds of feelings were reserved  for typewriters.

This little gem of a personal essay that ran in The New York Times in 1915.

Dang right.  I do love my gadgets as any good nerd girl does, but really there’s something deeply personal about a typewriter that all the glossy screens in the world just can’t top.  Y’know, I thought I was stuck in the ’60s—maybe it’s really 1915.

-TLOTH

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  1. ladyofthehouse reblogged this from obsoletethebook and added:
    Dang right. I do love my gadgets as any good nerd girl does, but really there’s something deeply personal
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    I learned to type on an electric typewriter. You know,...the day when dinosaurs roamed the...
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