The world’s first typewriter goes to auction in Köln (Germany) on 22 March 2025. Just 35 Malling Hansen Writing Balls remain, 30 are in museums and the battle for one of the few remaining specimens ...

If you were convinced that the computer had killed off the type writer, well, guess again. There remains a diehard community devoted to the machine—which apparently includes Tom Hanks, who wrote a ...

Thanks to parenting and life in general, [Brendan] had fallen out of the habit of writing and wasn’t happy about it. If you write anything ever, you already know there are endless distractions when it ...

As screens blur the line between work and home, some people are slowing down and disconnecting by looking to communication ...

OnMilwaukee is a media sponsor of QWERTYFEST MKE. QWERTYFEST MKE is a three-day festival that celebrates the invention of the typewriter in Milwaukee 150+ years ago. This year, it takes place Friday, ...

You can often tell a person’s age by the way they type. Older individuals, like myself, tend to type forcefully on a keypad because we learned on manual typewriters. I can still remember the sound of ...

At a time when productivity means optimizing every second and screens blur the line between work and home, some people are slowing down and disconnecting by looking to communication devices from the ...

There are dozens of ways to write on iOS. Apple’s own Notes app offers a simple writing platform, while Pages allows for elaborate documents – complete with pictures. While both are good for certain ...