Happy Typewriter Day!

Wishing a glorious Typewriter Day to all you Typospherians out there! Three points:

First, Monsieur in his own right:

Here is TC (the typewriter cat) wishing you good luck with your collection!

Second, today Historische Bürowelt number 1 0 0 !! arrived in my mailbox. Fresh from the press, and packed with beautiful stories. Hurray, and ad multos!

Historische Bürowelt Nr. 100, edited by M. Reese, published by ifhb.org

Third, Janine of UPPERCASE sent a Typewriter Day message (see here for more) and informs that their book "The Typewriter: A Graphic History of the Beloved Machine" is ready for pre-order! Sensational news, and not to be missed!

Doesn't that make for a nice Typewriter Day? Happy typing, shordzi

   

Happy Typewriter Day 2011

June 23rd - Typewriter Day
Last minutes of typewriter day here in Europe! As you see below, the whole world is celebrating. In the 1930s, this apparently meant the whole MALE world. I'll try to come up with something soon to strike an equal gender balance. Cheers!

Swiss keyboard

The text always starts with: "The whole world writes on UNDERWOODs - WHY ... ?"

Arabic

Assyrian

Indian

Japanese

Amharic

Chinese

USA

Greek

Russian

source: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland), 1934 and 1940.
drawings by: "A.S. Grob"