{"id":7346,"date":"2011-04-26T21:20:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T21:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/26\/while-supplies\/"},"modified":"2011-04-26T21:20:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T21:20:23","slug":"while-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/26\/while-supplies\/","title":{"rendered":"While Supplies Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min<\/span><\/span><p>From <em>The Long Now<\/em> blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.longnow.org\/2011\/04\/26\/last-typewriter-factory-closes\/\">an entry today<\/a> about the end of typewriter manufacturing. What will it be next? VCRs? Film cameras?<\/p>\n<p>I never got much use out of the typewriter as a writing machine. I used them to fill out forms in that dimly lit pre-PDF-dawn when fax machines were hot. I used typewriter impersonators (compact dot matrix word processors, essentially), although I can&#8217;t think of a single document whose production depended on it such that it couldn&#8217;t by then have been more sleekly crafted on a computer. I read <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Click-Clack-Moo-Cows-That\/dp\/0689832133\">Click, Clack, Moo<\/a><\/em> to Is. twenty or thirty times when she was younger, so that&#8217;s something. But this isn&#8217;t the sort of discontinuation that I would think gives anyone much pause, except perhaps to wonder which commonplace technologies of today will surrender to obsolescence in the next 25 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/idle.slashdot.org\/story\/11\/04\/26\/1443214\/Last-Typewriter-Factory-in-the-World-Shuts-Its-Doors\">Nevermind.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min<\/span><\/span>From The Long Now blog, an entry today about the end of typewriter manufacturing. What will it be next? VCRs? Film cameras? I never got much use out of the typewriter as a writing machine. I used them to fill out forms in that dimly lit pre-PDF-dawn when fax machines were hot. I used typewriter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[165],"tags":[1656,520,187,2634,532,2635],"class_list":["post-7346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media_massage","tag-click","tag-digital","tag-technology","tag-type","tag-typewriter","tag-write"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>While Supplies Last - Earth Wide Moth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/26\/while-supplies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"While Supplies Last - Earth Wide Moth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u23f3 Approximate reading time:  &lt; 1 minFrom The Long Now blog, an entry today about the end of typewriter manufacturing. 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