I grew up on a manual typewriter, the same one my mom used to write articles for Life Magazine in the ’50s and ’60s. It was a small portable in a beat-up canvas case, and you had to hit the keys hard.

To answer my own headline question: to connect to the Internet! You can't get online using a typewriter (I tried but I just keep getting a "cannot connect to Internet" message on the ribbon). What I'm ...

SNOHOMISH — There are several reasons Justin Lamb, 30, prefers a typewriter over a computer. There’s the nostalgia factor and how the machine has been used for decades by famous writers. The Snohomish ...