People are so darn emotional about the iPhones today. Way back when, those kinds of feelings were reserved  for typewriters.

This little gem of a personal essay that ran in The New York Times in 1915.

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   Dang right. I do love my gadgets as any good nerd girl does, but really there’s something deeply personal

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   I learned to type on an electric typewriter. You know,...the day when dinosaurs roamed the...

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