"The Person Who Doesn't Own One is the Curiosity"
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (188416)
Boise, Idaho
April 15, 2026 3:22pm CST
According to a typewriter historian Mark Twain was the first author to publish a book written on a typewriter. It was the 1883 "Life on the Mississippi". He hand wrote it and then later typed on a Remington 2.
Twain later commented in a letter he wrote about the emerging technology "At the beginning of that interval a type-machine was a curiosity. The person who owned was a curiosity too. But now it is the other way around: the person who doesn't own one is the curiosity."
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@toniganzon (76883)
• Philippines
15 Apr
We never owned a Remington but we had an Olympia, a German company. It was my grandfather and he was the one who taught me and my sister how to use the typewriter properly with the correct fingers. So we were really good at touch typing. And I'm still touch typing even with the computer keyboards.
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@celticeagle (188416)
• Boise, Idaho
19 Apr
So am I. I still remember typing class in high school. Practicing and remembering all the finger placements.
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@toniganzon (76883)
• Philippines
19 Apr
@celticeagle We had typing class in elementary but I was exempted because I was too good at it. And another one in high school but this time with a computer and since I was too good. at it, our teacher told me to help my classmates instead.
@RasmaSandra (96821)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
15 Apr
Authors who were around and used typewriters could do so much but imagine how creative and progressive they would have been if there had ben computers.
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@celticeagle (188416)
• Boise, Idaho
19 Apr
I did too. Was sure happy to be able to do my work on the computer.
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@Ineeddentures (30682)
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15 Apr
Remington
Was that the company Victor Kiam bought
Mens grooming
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@Ineeddentures (30682)
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20 Apr
@celticeagle
It was I checked
He was a Chinese American
Always wearing a dressing gown in his adverts
I always thought he was gay but he wasnt
