Typewriters

Then: The Blicksenderfer Manufacturing Company produced the first electric typewriter in 1902. Typewriters didn't reach mass market until much later — when IBM released the Electric Typewriter Model 01 in 1935. Generation X learned to type on a variation of this model until desktop computers made them virtually extinct.

Now: Macbook Air, Laptops, netbooks, desktop computers.

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