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The Typewriter Revolution blog
Personal blog · writingball.blogspot.comwritingculture
The Typewriter Revolution blog is a personal blog at writingball.blogspot.com about writing and culture. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post about an infamous Apple memo saying the company was word processing first. The one comment cites it as a parallel to an AI-first company memo.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
One typist's exploration of typewriting in the 21st century. By the author of The Typewriter Revolution.
What Hacker News says?
There was an Apple memo like this though that said they were word processing first. https://writingball.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-infamous-apple-...
Comment linking /2020/02/the-infamous-apple-typewriter-memo-is.html?m=1
on “AI-First Company Memos”Submitted Apple typewriter memo (2020) as a story · 64 points
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