typosphere

Matt Cidoni, 16, of East Brunswick, N.J., keeps a picture of his favorite machine, a Royal No. 10, on his iPod Touch so he can show it off to friends. Online, he is a proud member of the "typosphere," a global community of typewriter geeks. Like many of them, he enjoys "typecasting," or tapping out typewritten messages, which he scans and posts to his Web site, Adventures in Typewriterdom.

2011 March 31, Jessica Bruder, “The Digital Generation Rediscovers the Magic of Manual Typewriters”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2024

It is ironic, then, how social media has both supercharged and democratized the hobby, whose denizens have gone from a small handful of (predominantly older, white, male, American) collectors to a truly global "typosphere" of individuals of every race, religion, gender orientation, and political persuasion, whose uniting feature is an obsession with these antiquated writing machines.

2024 March 16, Mark Lawrence Schrad, “Where My Continental Standard Spent the War”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2024