Second Life Typewriters

This is on a - in typewriter history terms - recent topic, but it might soon be part of cyber-history. Who of your remembers the hype when Second Life was launched? Short definition: "Second Life provides an online society within a 3D world, where users can explore, build, socialize and participate in their own economy, essentially a 3 dimensional social networking site in which people create avatars (alter-egos) and explore/create the world of Second Life."

Following up on the typosphere's robot week, I was wondering about the existence of typewriters in this virtual world, and this is what I found:

A mere 200 Lindendollars on the Second Life marketplace would buy you a  "Capalini" typewriter, carrying Malling Hansen's "writing ball" in the 21st century:

For a fully refurbished retro-office, you would go for the Black Rose Antique Typewriter Desk Set (L$200):

The *SLD* Typewriter for L$250 promises a "high detailed model" with "show if you type" (sic!):

Second to last discovery, an interesting project by Angrybeth in which a giant typewriter located in Second World can be operated by users and spills out messages to "real world" twitter:

The Giant Typewriter

The Giant Typewriter in Second Life's Pencil factory (source)

The SLtypewriter project on twitter as of 2011-08-09

Finally, Second Life reaching back into reality: Dreamer, below in the picture, "pushed the laptop to the side and brought the old machine out of the attic to type this article  - just for realism!" upon hearing the news of the Indian typewriter factory shutting down. Read her experience here.

Dreamer

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Out in the park now!