It’s funny how technological innovations eventually become commonplace and then forgotten. My six-year-old was doing his homework last night and had to write the first and last letters of things that were pictured on his worksheet. When he got to a typewriter he asked me what it was.

Isn’t that funny? He asked me what it was and when I looked at it, it was clearly a picture of a typewriter.

And then I found myself EXPLAINING to him how a typewriter works, with the keys hitting the ribbon, etc. My ten-year-old got into it then, asking if each letter hit at the same place, so I explained how the roller moves each time you hit a key.

Who’d have thought it?

How many libraries out there still have a typewriter somewhere, available for public use? We’ve still got one on the basement level, but I don’t think it gets used much.

It won’t be long before we’re getting students as freshmen in college who’ve never seen a typewriter before. This year’s freshmen were generally born in 1989! MAN!! I was a senior in college that year! Where’s the time gone? :-)