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Oct 3, 2021, 7 tweets

Keith Ferrer was seven years old the first time he saw a typewriter. He asked his mother if they could take it home. The answer was no, but that didn’t stop his interest in the outdated device.

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A technology once roundly considered obsolete, suddenly, typewriters are everywhere.

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Why are typewriters suddenly trending?

Is it nostalgia – a desire to return to a simpler, less distracted time? Or is there something we’ve been missing about that clack and clatter, that slide and bell, something more tactile in this digital age?

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“Each machine is different. Each style of machine, each brand, each model has their own unique and distinctive feel,” says Thom Cholowski, a typewriter repairman and owner of Rebel Typewriters in Saskatoon.

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While most of the world is smartphone and laptop powered — typewriters, and their repairmen, are having a moment.

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The online community of collectors and appreciators – known as the Typosphere – exploded after the film California Typewriter.

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Ironically, the comeback of typewriters has been aided by the very technology that replaced them in the first place. The internet is a vast place to buy, sell and share resources.

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