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They are but they aren't. Excepting niche cases (like filling out carbons in triplicate at car dealerships and such) typewriters are pretty anachronistic. It i
by alexjplant 1y ago
They are but they aren't.
Excepting niche cases (like filling out carbons in triplicate at car dealerships and such) typewriters are pretty anachronistic. It is, however, amusing that over the past decade as things have digitized fewer people seem to own printers. Without a printer a computer fails at the simple task that a typewriter is inherently designed for - putting words to paper. Anecdotally <50% of my friends have a printer in their home... I wonder how that compares to typewriter ownership 50 years ago?
Regardless it's pretty clear that the author of the site is a big typewriter fan hence their statement. I find it contrived, but hey, it takes all kinds to make the world go 'round.
- KerrAvon 1y agoObsolete doesn't mean useless. Typewriters are obsolete! I use a lot of things that are obsolete, but that doesn't make them not obsolete.
- anyfoo 1y agoIndeed I use my printer once every two months or so, as a very rough estimate. And then it’s usually for myself rather than for someone or something else. For example I sometimes (not always) like printing out papers to read them “offline”, or diagrams when I want to take notes on them. I don’t miss dealing with paper because I had to.
- int_19h 1y agoOwnership of printers is so low because the usefulness of putting words to paper is correspondingly low these days, though, because so many things are online or at least digital. 20-30 years ago though printers were far more common than typewriters before them.