Mr. Frederic Durbin and his analog writing students tell PEOPLE about typewriting letters to Tom Hank — and his replies.

Converting typewriters into keyboards has been done for a very long time; teletypes, the first computer keyboards, were basically typewriters, and the 1970s saw a number of IBM Selectrics ...

For decades the world lived on typewriters. A product of the 18th century, modern technology gave us computers, and the ...

Even the constant distractions from the computer can ruin a thought process. One writer decided to break free of continual notifications and doomscrolling by making an old-school typewriter with a ...

But she doesn't use a computer to do it. Instead, she types out each manuscript on one of her 1940s Olympia typewriters — and she has very good reasons for doing it the old-school way.