Synchronicity
Amazing stuff (and please forgive my double posting today. I just had to share.)
On the very day I posted about typewriters, this came in my email from WRITERS DIGEST:
Famous Writers & Their Typewriters
“BJUYT KIOP M LKJHGFDSA:QWERTYUIOP:,-98VX5432QW RT HA” — so began Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, on his first attempt “T TO GET THE HANG OF THIS NEW F FANGLED WRITING MACHINE.” The all-caps were not for emphasis, much less political: The Remington No. 1 he’d just bought in Boston offered no lower case. “I believe it will print faster than I can write,” he wrote that December of 1874, and it “piles an awful stack of words on one page.” Nine years later, his Life on the Mississippi was the first typed manuscript ever delivered to a publisher.”
Aren’t we glad Twain got the hang of that “NEW F FANGLED WRITING MACHINE”? The rest, as they say, is history.
Love this!
I remember my first two manual typewriters and then my first two electric typewriters! I took typing in school and I was pretty fast! Then I got a word processor but when the computers came out, yeah I wanted one! My first computer was a desktop! And it took me a while before I got the hang of it! In fact, I'm still learning! Now, I have a Chromebook and I need a new Chromebook since sometimes this one just won't cooperate! So, I think I know how Mark Twain must have felt with his new fangled writing machine!