The Original ASCII Art Was Just This Guy and His Typewriter

The Original ASCII Art Was Just This Guy and His Typewriter

In 1922 Hobart Reese enjoyed a brief period of fame for his portraits of famous people. What made his work so special? Reese created his art using nothing but a typewriter.

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13 of the World’s Oldest (and Most Beautiful) Typewriters

13 of the World's Oldest (and Most Beautiful) Typewriters

Some people collect baseball cards and others collect coins. Martin Howard, however, collects century-old typewriters. And boy is he good at it. The Toronto-based enthusiast has typewriters that looks like navigation instruments and typewriters that look like scales. But they all have one thing in common: They’re beautiful.

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To Avoid Cyber Espionage, Russia’s Switching Back to Typewriters

To Avoid Cyber Espionage, Russia's Switching Back to Typewriters

Hackers aren’t going anywhere any time soon, so Russian spies are wising up and taking their most sensitive intelligence offline. Not offline like off the internet. Offline like off computers altogether.

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Look at This Idiot Using His Typewriter in a Starbucks

We’ve already been plenty vocal on our opinions of people who use coffee shops as their personal office. But this guy—this digital rebel found by Twitter user @DGoddamnGlover—makes those non-ordering, space-consuming table squatters look like saints—and this their new pope. More »

10 of History’s Most Beautiful Typewriters [Video]

Typewriters are intricate machines—complex little boxes that require an abundance of ingenuity to produce. They are often beautiful, and they occasionally find wildly imaginative ways to conduct the delicate dance between the hammers and the keys. More »