Our purpose is served in giving, for the first time, the true life story of a typewriter ribbon, and this prominence is well deserved because of the fact that the typewriter ribbon, working silently in the machine, represents today one of the most important mediums of writing that we have.
The following narrative appeared in Office Appliances, a trade magazine, in 1916…
Second page…
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The important part of the typewriter, and we take it for granted. Nice story.
kind of relentlessly depressing, actually. 😀
Oh, so depressing. I only hope the author penned this piece on a typewriter, and not by long-hand!
Typewriter ribbons were woven by hand in Switzerland? Who knew!
The second half of the story is like Kafka’s attempt at an advertising brochure.