Blogging in the Fifties (Sort Of)
Long before we had PC's we had typewriters. Not electric, self-correcting models, but mechanical boxes with levers and rollers. I hear there are still a few of them around (in museums). This snappy model (pictured with me at the "keyboard") wasn't too bad. At least I thought so. It didn't really have a keyboard. Instead, it had a round dial with the alphanumeric characters on the edge. Pressing the "space bar" pushed the top-most character against a ribbon, resulting in real words, accurately spelled without exception by a seven-year old author. That was how I "wrote" in the fifties, laying the foundation for a brilliant blogging future. Now I still write in the fifties - my fifties, that is. It's almost as fun now as it was then. I only hope my spelling has improved - just a little.