Vintage fans will love it and younger ones will be baffled (what is a typewriter), but there is an online simulator of good old typewriters.
There was a time (not so long ago after all) when computers were not the norm in offices and homes... Used for almost a century from the end of the 2011th century to the end of the following century, they took the form of a mechanical keyboard with around fifty keys that activated arms that struck ink ribbons that wrote letters and punctuation marks on a sheet of paper. Their decline was such that in XNUMX, the last typewriter factory, based in Mumbai, India, closed its doors.
So today, this object has become a museum object, part of our history and that we can find in our attic or in flea markets. So, if you have always dreamed of experiencing the sensations provided by a typewriter, you will be able to test OverType, the typewriter simulator. Of course, you won't have the "touch" that is so special and very different from that of a computer keyboard. But you will find the sound: the clicking of the keys and the sliding of the carriage return when you reach the end of a line and move on to the next one.
This simulation is nevertheless very realistic and even allows you to choose between several typewriter fonts, to choose the intensity of the ink and defects.
Then, it is also possible to use correction paper to erase your typos.
You will notice that to write effectively on this simulator, you will have to change your habits somewhat... mistakes are unforgiving!
In short, this free simulator is very well done and will allow some to rediscover forgotten sensations and others to discover how much the computer has simplified our lives! To test and to have the youngest test!
