'There's an authenticity to it': Enthusiasts click with classic typewriters

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Michael Schlesinger meets some local lovers of typewriters sharing and keeping their preferred medium alive. Through regular "type-ins" at Bay View Library the typists of Milwaukee are keeping the bygone media relevant for a new generation.
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[@ingemarf8304]

Makes me remember Alistair Cooke's classic comment when he, some time in the nineties, was asked if it was not time to exchange his old typewriter for a modern word-processor. His answer came as a rethorical question: "Does it write better prose?"

[@TheCNYMike]

I keep thinking about how in 1982 or thereabouts, one of my high school teachers were talking about the power of word processing. Everything old is new again.

[@666kingdrummer]

What's New is now Old, and what's Old is New again.

[@cocoaorange1]

Everything is old again. Typewriters are good back up, when computers are down.

[@davidchristensen8496]

I preferred the IBM Selectric and could hit 101 words per minute with it with a 1% error rate.

[@elpelazo]

Did it 2 months ago. Peace of mind. Fuck the machines

[@metcas]

The words kind of have to flow. Good luck backspacing otherwise lmao

[@acmelka]

I think marking clay tablets with a sharpened reed is better

[@fr0styyproductionsmc]

You’re being a smart ass, but it’s why you’ll always be limited to modern tech that’s meant to withhold features and break down. Enjoy your ads while typing on google docs in the future lmao I’m just waiting for them to update it.