Typewriters may be long past their heyday, but just because PCs, word processor software, and cheap printers have made them largely obsolete doesn’t mean the world is better off without them. Using a ...

Typewriters aren’t really made anymore in any major quantity, since the computer kind of rained all over its inky parade. That’s not to say you can’t build one yourself though, as [Toast] did in a ...

Eleven years ago, Paul Lundy was dying a slow, workingman’s death under fluorescent light. For three decades, he had worked in facilities management — an honest trade that ground him down until, in ...

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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 ...

When singer songwriter John Mayer talks about keys, it's not always about music. Sometimes it's about the typewriter he uses. Tom Hanks not only uses one, he's collected about 100 of them. Mayer and ...

Once a semester, a Cornell University instructor requires her students to complete an in-class assignment using typewriters — ...

Late one evening a few years ago, Tom Rehkopf got a phone call from an unfamiliar number. The caller had an unusual request: “I need six working Selectrics by tomorrow morning.” Rehkopf was stunned.

Crocs into LEGO feet, a basement into a Gamestop, three different gaming consoles into one—we’ve talked about a lot of amazing transformations here before. And here’s another one to add to the pile.

WATCH: Cambridge Typewriting Company is set to close at the end of March. It's the area's last typewriter repair shop. We went for a tour. When Tom Furrier received a large, bulky package Tuesday ...

Some may say that typewriters are a thing of the past, but one young artist proves that it’s quite the opposite. 23-year-old architecture student James Cook creates wonderful artworks using manual ...