National Typewriter Day

Yes, you read that correctly.  A day for the typewriter, an old fashioned way to type up articles, recipes, reports you name it!  

It was just like the computers we have today, sort of!

If you are young you might not even know what a typewriter is but for those of us in their fifties or older, a typewriter saved the day for many of us.

A basic typing machine was invented by Charles Thurber in 1843.  Commercial typewriters however, took until 1867 to be built in Wisconsin.

Fast forward to the 1970’s and if you were in high school you would have had lessons on the typewriter.  Later, you would need a typewriter to do some of your work.

You would need to feed paper into the typewriter and replace any ink ribbon after it was used up.  

Don’t forget about any errors you might have made.  That required you use whiteout and retype to fix it!

The genius of moving to use a computer is that  if you learned to type using a typewriter it transferred perfectly to a computer keyboard since it is the same letter keyboard for both.

Memory lane is fun to go down every once in a while and the typewriter can bring us traveling right down it with thoughts of former jobs or other typing you would have done.

It’s fascinating too because there are some people you may have heard of who still like to use a typewriter when they get the chance.

These include authors George RR Martin and Jhumpa Lahiri and the filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.

Private Home Health Care is sure that many of you remember the days when the typewriter was a great machine to use.   Celebrate the memories and then appreciate the computers we have today!

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio