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QWERTY’s Origin Story Is A Big Fat Lie
You use it every day without a second thought, but if you think about it for just a second, QWERTY is really, really weird. Where did something so strangely unintuitive come from? The popular story is that it has to do with typewriter mechanics and jamming prevention, and although that explanation sure is tidy, it’s also probably bullshit.
Starbucks Typewriter Guy Answers Our Burning Questions
As you may remember, yesterday, we put up a post poking fun at this then-stranger who had been photographed using a typewriter in Starbucks by one of his fellow students. Cries of rage soon followed from both sympathisers and opponents alike. This man’s typewriter and our mocking tone struck a chord. For some of you, a very deep, perhaps-could-be-helped-with-therapy chord.
These USB Typewriters Type On Your Screen And On Paper Simultaneously
Jack Zylkin has created a hack that turns any kind of vintage typewriter into a modern keyboard for tablets and computers — one that also can type on paper. Appropriately called USB typewriters, watching them in action is nothing short of fascinating.
This iPad Typewriter Is Loud And Banging Fun
As keyboards eventually move towards dead silent and touchscreen, you’ll rue the loss of clickity, clackity keyboards filled with character. Hell, we’re already without the beautiful racket of typewriters. Click, tap, tap, reset.
Make Your Keyboard Sound Like A Typewriter
Built on openFrameworks version 0071, Noisy Typer runs in the background and will replicate the click clack sound of an oldtimey typewriter, while you compose your emails and pen your memoirs on your word processing program of choice.
Automated Typewriter Creates Never-Ending Story Honouring Killed Journalists
“On Journalism #2 Typewriter” is a typewriter installation that honours journalists who been killed worldwide between 1992 and present day, by writing generatively constructed stories about about them based on their published work and the existing data of their lives (via the Committee to Protect Journalists).
This Typewriter Turns Hemingways Into Picassos
If a picture’s worth a thousand words, an oil painting has to be worth a few hundred more. At least oil paintings created with Tyree Callahan’s Chromatic Typewriter which lays down different hues of paint instead of letters.
